the love of women

[flower_ballet]

"Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."Ruth to Naomi. The Book of Ruth:

Comments

[ninja_tech]

Whoa....that gave me goosebumps. Truly powerful words. :O

[flower_ballet]

I know. The funny thing is - today these words are often used in the wedding vow, from groom to bride. No one thinks about how they were originally said from one woman to another. Naomi might have been Ruth's mother-in-law, but that does not change that Ruth's book all over has one of the most gripping stories of affection between women - not only in the Bible, but in world literature as a whole.

So who said the Bible wasn't gay? ;)

[queennepy]

Truly one of the most beautiful scriptures.

[flower_ballet]

Agreed.