I Shall Find Grace . . .

"And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi,

Let me now go to the field,
and glean ears of corn after him

in whose sight I shall find grace.

And she said unto her, Go, my daughter."

Ruth 2:2 KJV

Picking a name for a Blog sounds really easy . . . until you try and do it. Why? Because, as I found out very quickly the name I had picked and was so right for me and so what I wanted . . . was already taken by someone else . . . OR should I say by several others (different versions of the same). UGH!



Quaker Haven Camp

Was I disappointed, extremely, but then I quickly realized that there was something else going on here. Why when I felt so strongly attached to a specific name had others already claimed it? Why wasn't it there for me to use? Then I began to wonder . . . Was I attached to that name for the wrong reason? And then the thought came to me that God must have another name in mind for me, and that when I finally found that name, I would know it and it would be available.

I was however, stuck that the name for my Blog had to come from the book of Ruth a story that I am very familiar with and one that keeps coming up in my life over and over again for at least the last 35-40 years. So, there is some history between Ruth and I . . . and maybe, someday, Ill get into that, until then . . . at least some of you know a piece of that, and that will have to do, for now.

So, I read and re-read the book of Ruth . . . and nothing. Knowing that there are many versions of the Bible, and since I was at Mooresville Friends Church at the time, I started looking and I read Ruth in several different versions and reread some, and still nothing. Then I started to just read different verses that seemed to jump out at me. And, when I read "I shall find grace" KJV . . . I thought that's it! But, before getting too excited about it, I checked to see if it was available, it was, and I was excited to finally have a name . . .