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Essential info for my storybook about Ruth and Boaz! yay Sources: Bible Story A video overview of Ruth Lessons to be learned from Ruth Insight on Ruth's story Stories to include: Two stories from Ruth's perspective.  One story from the perspective of Naomi (Ruth's mother in law) One story from the perspective of Boaz Writing style: I want to write these 4 stories in the style of a journal entry. I think it would be cool to feel like you are reading a raw and emotional journal entry written by each of these characters focusing on how they were feeling throughout the progression of Ruth and Boaz's love story. I want to start with Ruth's original journal entry about staying with Naomi and then going to meet Boaz. Then I want to include Naomi's perspective on Ruth and Boaz. After that, I will write about Boaz's thoughts on Ruth, and then I will end with Ruth's final thoughts and feelings towards Boaz.  Main ideas:  My two main ideas...

It had been seven days that all of the animals had been stowed away on the ship. They were hungry. They were tired. Their paws, claws, and hooves hurt. It seemed as though every moment another type of animal was complaining about something, and it took all Noah had to be patient and try to tend to their every need. He was exhausted as well; not only did he have to build this giant ark, load all of the living things on the entire earth into the ark, load and take care of this family, but he also had to feed every species on the boat. Imagine herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores all living in one boat. It was all Noah's responsibility to keep them from eating each other and from eating Noah and his family! For such a long time, as well. This was not just a week-long, leisurely vacation with his family. This was the entire responsibility of saving the world that God had put in Noah's hands! So yes, stressed and exhausted is an understatement. On the eighth day, Noah was walking ...

I found beautiful sentences for part A of my reading notes for this week and I really enjoyed it, so I figured I would do the same for part B. Although, I am going to specifically focus on beautiful sentences from one story so that I can feel fully prepared to base this weeks story that I write on the story from part B that I write all of my notes from. The Flood: "He answered, and said: 'I saw thou wast very busy, and I did not wish to add to thy cares." I thought this sentence was so sweet. This was said by one animal whom Noah found in the corner of the ark. The animal had not eaten and when Noah asked why the above sentence was his reply. He saw how busy Noah was while he was trying to feed all of the animals aboard, and he did not want Noah to feel anymore stressed than he already was feeling.  "The lions began to roar, the oxen lowed, the wolves howled, and all the animals gave vent to their agony, each through the sounds it had the power to utter....

I wanted to focus my reading notes this week on beautiful sentences. I never spend much time really paying any attention to sentence structure or appreciating the complexity of sentences, and so when I saw this option for a new style of reading notes, I figured it would be something good to try. I love the way the Bible is written, but I don't think I've ever read scripture purely to enjoy the beauty of the sentences. Something I have been studying recently is the concept of what beauty is and how it is portrayed in the Bible, and so I thought this could be a stellar way to view beauty in the Bible in a different sense. Here is my list of beautiful sentences and why I think they are beautiful: "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." ...