Christine & Paige have a conversation about meaning and belonging.
Today, it seems like individualism and autonomy are prized and dependency is seen as less, or weak, or OK as long as you're still in complete control - like, living with your lover without the suffocating agreement of marriage. It also seems like depression and anxiety are leveraged against people, to make them run hard after "working on themselves" instead of the one who made them.  In truth, proper care from knowledgeable doctors, and seeking wise counselors is good and compatible with abiding in God's love and enjoying the peace and freedom we are given when we're in right relationship with God!

Paige and Christine have been noticing that in the ancient world, the question, "who do you belong to?" is one way someone might ask a poor or endangered person, "who is taking care of you?" Ruth and 1 Samuel demonstrate how two poor and endangered individuals, a Moabite woman and an Amalekite's slave, were in need of someone to care for them, they were at the proverbial 'end of their rope' and God used their humble stations to make good on His very own promises.  We hope this encourages you to run hard after belonging to a good God; to not despise what He is doing around you, and in you, whether it is difficult or easy; a burden or a joy.  He promises: "...we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28) Rest in that real, good promise.

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