A Sacred Alliance

All week we’ve been looking at how Ruth and Naomi had a sacred alliance. What might it look like for you to form an alliance with someone who has different needs than your own - to initiate towards them, to stand with them, even to own the ways you may have hurt them. Reflect today on this scripture and this quote and ask God what it might look like for you to enter into such an alliance.

 Two are better than one,
    because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
    one can help the other up.
- Proverbs 4:9-10

But more than an alliance, it is “allyship.” That means accompanying people in their journeys through listening, respecting, confronting, standing with, confessing, and being responsible. It means showing up even if you don’t get it or understand it or even agree with it. It means addressing all the bodily realities of people who are daily facing erasure and violence in all its forms—physical, structural, psychic, spiritual, and religious.

- Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith