20 “Don’t call me Naomi," she told them. “Call me Mara," because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”
Naomi, which means 'pleasant', lost her husband and two sons in famine in a foreign country. I don't guess how she could feel about her destiny of returning home empty-handed, and she must have complained it to God. Also, she seems to accept all happening by blaming it for her misfortune that God had brought to her, calling herself Mara, which means 'bitter'.
However, there was someone who was the source of blessing to her family, Ruth. She was stubbornly asking her mother-in-law to bring her to Judah, mother's country. They must be trusting and caring for each other, when I guess through their conversation: "Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried.""Your people will be my people and your God my God."
At this miserable situation, they are caring for and trying to be closer with each other. There must be people who are at this circumstance, such as war, famine, flood, joblessness, and covid 19, etc. I hope they have hope in God who cares for them, though they never understand it now. If they trust God and anyone who is closer to them, they would be used by God in a good and bliss way.
Let me hope, and pray for them to change their bitter life into a pleasant life as soon as possible, or to stand until God's will be done on earth.
