Ruth chose to stay with Naomi when leaving was easier. Loyalty is a quiet kind of faith.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
Staying when leaving was reasonable is its own kind of statement. She had every justification to go home, nobody would have blamed her, and she stayed with a grieving older woman because of a loyalty nobody was enforcing. That kind of faith makes no announcements and never shows up as a dramatic moment. It shows up as somebody still being there two years later when the crisis has become ordinary.
Be the one who stays with somebody this week, after the drama has passed and everybody else has moved on. A message, a visit, a standing arrangement.
Where have you chosen to stay out of plain loyalty?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.