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“Hesed is one-way love. Love without an exit strategy… Hesed is opposite of the spirit of our age, which says we have to act on our feelings. Hesed says “No, you act on your commitments. The feelings will follow.” Love like this is unbalanced, uneven… It is Jesus’s love for us at the cross, and it is to be our love for one another.”

This is a beautiful dive into the book of Ruth. I am loving it and underlining so much

Right off the bat, I don’t appreciate how Paul Miller characterizes men’s problem towards women is that they’re overly demanding. Women are expecting the same effort and respect from her male counterparts when she must give up her body, her career, and her leisure bearing his child and maintaining the household—I’m not supporting traditional roles, but this is what women have been expected to do.