I Wish You Had What Ruth Possessed

You wear your anger well and stand
For all the world to see
A heavy cloak and one gloved hand
And no humility

You stand inside the garden
And feast on black cherries
And swallow the manna from heaven
And spit out the seeds

You spread your anger on sharp-edged knives
Cut my skin and make it bleed
Like pilate in his self righteousness
You're a traitor and a thief

Choking on your unplanned words
Coughing up your lies
Tumbling from your mouth a flurry
Of broken butterflies

But the blood that flows I cannot hide
That blood that covers me
Nourishes the butterflies
And they are healed and are set free

I wish you had what Ruth possessed
But then I don't expect that of you
Grace and honor and faithfulness
And the love that you refuse

Will you ever learn to just forgive
Will you open your beautiful eyes
And bleed the way Christ did
And fix the broken butterflies

They rest their wings snapped in two
on their way to certain death
Their colors gold and blue

Awesome thread...that song was beautiful :)





Just noticed they missed a verse.

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yea! someone karma pinned it :) blue and gold...something about those colors...

I put the 10 karma points in my own juke box in this gin joint...lol

My grandma's name was Ruth! ahhh! hehe

Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.

My grandma's name was Ruth! ahhh! hehe

Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.

Act 1: Prologue and Problem: Death and Emptiness (1:1–22) Scene 1: Setting and Problem (1:1–6) Scene 2: Emptiness Compounded (1:7-19a) Scene 3: Emptiness Expressed (1:19b-22)

Act 2: Ruth Meets Boaz, Naomi's Relative, on the Harvest Field (2:1–23) Scene 1: Ruth Goes to Glean (2:1–3) Scene 2: Boaz is Exceedingly Generous (2:4-17a) Scene 3: Boaz Is One of their Redeemers (2:17b-23)

Act 3: Naomi Sends Ruth to Boaz on the Threshing Floor (3:1–18) Scene 1: Naomi Reveals Her Plan Scene 2: Ruth Carries out Naomi's Plan

Act 4: Resolution and Epilogue: Life and Fullness (4:1–22) Scene 1: Boaz Acquires the Right to Redeem Ruth and Naomi (4:1–12) Scene 2: Naomi Is Restored to Life and Fullness (4:13–17) Scene 3: Epilogue: A Judean Family Restored

That song made me cry so hard, needed to hear that today, thankyou.

Tears can often release tears of joy too.

Been traveling from room to room in a place that I really don't know at all, all i know is that something is pulling him and i. I sit here in the dark rooms with the curtains pulled and think of how weak i am and all the mistakes i've made in the past, and now i've left my family, friends, the life i've always known to something that has no reason or explanation only that we are supposed to. How i could have the strength of Ruth right now, i really need it.

Maybe you didn’t like the other one. Jesus with his friends.

4 chapters...I know Ruth and Boaz!

Did you see the movie, based on a book, Fried Green Tomatoes?

I am more than you could have imagined, not less.