{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Commons Church Podcast","title":"When Grief Pushes People Away - Jeremy Duncan","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1952,"description":"What happens when grief starts to sound like kindness? “Look after yourself. I can’t do anything for you. You’d be better off without me.” In Ruth 1, Naomi says all of it, and none of it is malicious. But it may be pushing her toward an even more lonely and precarious place.\nIn part two of our series through the book of Ruth, Jeremy Duncan walks through the rest of chapter 1: a widow acting on a rumour that God has visited Bethlehem, the “house of bread”; two daughters-in-law who make very different choices; and Ruth’s vow to follow Naomi wherever she lays her head. Along the way we look at why Orpah isn’t the villain of the story, what the Hebrew text says about Ruth’s commitment, and why Naomi’s angry, bitter words are allowed to stand without correction.\nThis message explores grief, isolation, loyalty, and chosen family, and the hope that our hardest moments don’t get the final word, because this story, like yours, isn’t finished yet.\nScripture: Ruth 1:6–22","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/icwXcrJQyrNlhck0A-v9WDGWKhB8Uyi0q6ZPjuvnhoM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMDQw/ODJmNWNlZmZkYzUz/YzIyZDkwZTZiZmVk/MDllMC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}