Once Upon A Time

Reading Esther will always make me bring out my study book from Beth Moore, "Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman".  If you ever get the opportunity to take this bible study, don't miss it!  After having done that...it seems so incredibly rushed to read two whole chapters of Ruth in one day!  There is so much detail in this book...it's so different from any other book, I wish we could take it more slowly.  So, if you're able to...read it slow!!  Look at the words, imagine the scenery, pretend you're part of the story.  It's not just history...  In the Beth Moore study she asks the reader to consider Romans 15:4  "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."