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Today's reading: Ruth

"So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest." Ruth 1:22 NLT

If I'll stop long enough to look deeply into this verse, I'll see God's hands creating an opportunity for a miracle.

A specific season. A good harvest. A reputable farm. A kind man. A willing kinsman redeemer.

Pausing long enough to see what He's revealing, I catch a glimpse of His power of it all. His power over the sun, moon and stars to create the spring barley crop.His willingness to allow for a bumper crop that specific year, a year when the foreigners and widows were needing to glean behind the workers for sustenance. A farm stewarded by a man known for his kindness and reputation. A distant relation whose heart was pliable in God's hands.

Those are a lot of coincidences, if I were one to believe in coincidence.

God was in it all. Every step of it. Each and every thing that needed to be set in place for Him to receive the glory and for us to have this fine record of His accomplishments.

That being said, how in this wonderful world of all He has placed together for a purpose, can I doubt His timing isn't sufficient for me? That He isn't working all things together? That in my waiting He is knitting specifics together for a glorious reveal?

I'll continue to wait. I'll continue to watch for Him, even when I don't see any movement. I'll continue to expect great things from my Great Father!