I'm with you.

Its no secret that I love the story of Ruth (and Naomi and Boaz) I love the romance which seems incredible and rare and yet basic everyday care and concern for another. I love the story of redemption...after all, we all have pain in our pasts-- failures, dissapointments, deaths -- that can't be fixed, and maybe can't be restored, but can be redeemed. I love that her tragedy was used to show God's glory. I love her reckless abandon to follow her mother in law and more importantly, to follow her NEW God....afterall, she has one of the most radical conversions in scriptures and in a matter of minutes, chooses to follow the God of Isreal and trust HIM alone. I've been a Christian most of my life and still struggle to trust the one true God with my life and problems....so I have always been in awe of Ruth.

Thats probably why I LOVE this song by Nichole Nordeman and Amy Grant -- because I just found out it's about RUTH! (and Naomi) No wonder I related, no wonder I understood. It's about two women holding eachother through life's hard parts. So many songs focus only on how a significant other is there during ups and downs....but this song focuses on how women embrace eachother and literally walk through bad times together... specifically, in the case of Ruth and Naomi, where they lost their spouses, their families, their livelihood. They literally provided companionship for eachother. Naomi provided spiritual encouragement and guidance in a motherly role to a new believer and Ruth provided - literally provided - so that they would not starve.

I don't know about you, but I want to have friends like that (and thankfully I do) AND I want to be a friend like that. This song made me so grateful for the women in my life - my sisters and my friends. My favorite line is: Till your heart finds a home, I won't let you feel alone.
I would go further than the author of this song says and state that when you feel you have no home, true friends make you part of their home...when boys leave or family dissapoints or failures come.

Love is a hurricaine in a blue sky,

I didn't see it coming, never know why.

All the laughter and teh dreams,

ALl the memories in between,

Washed away in a steady stream.

Love is a hunger, a famine in your soul.

I thought I planted beauty, but it would never grow.

Now I'm on my hands and knees,

Trying to gather up my dreams,

Trying to hold on to anything.

We could shake a fist in times like this

When we don't understand or we could just hold hands.

You and me, me and you,

Where you go, I'll go too,

I'm with you, I'm with you.

Till your heart finds a home,

I won't let you feel alone,

I'm with you, I'm with you.

You do your best to build a higher wall.

To keep love safe from any wrecking ball.

When the dust has cleared, we will

See the house that love rebuilds,

Guarding beauty that lives here still.

You and me, me and you,

Where you go, I'll go too,

I'm with you, I'm with you.

Till your heart finds a home,

I won't let you be alone,

I'm with you, I'm with you.

Who can say I'm left with nothing?

When I have all of you, all of you.

In the way you've always loved me.

I remember, He does too.

It's you and me, me and you,

Where you go, I'll go too,

I'm with you, I'm with you.

Until your heart finds a home,

I won't let you feel alone,

I'm with you, I'm with you.