{"id":1304,"date":"2020-02-17T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:00:48","slug":"surprise-ending-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/17\/surprise-ending-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SURPRISE ENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ru 4:13, 17 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.<br \/>\nVs 17 ,The women living there said, &#8220;Naomi has a son.&#8221; And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.<\/p>\n<p>Suspense and surprise ending are stylistic devices used by writers to keep a story afloat. The book of Ruth is such an example in the bible<\/p>\n<p>A story full of pain famine,hunger, pain of death,separation  and reunion. Ruth, a young Moabite  widow ends up getting married to Boaz the grandfather of  king David and from whom the genealogy of Jesus is also traced .This can be termed as a Bible thriller and best selling story .<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the story, each one of us has certain areas of our  life full of suspense and surprise endings. It takes courage to allow the unfolding of your life story because sooner or later ,the ending  will produce  results that leave a mark in many generations. Life is a thrilling story full of  suspense and surprise endings. Your tomorrow will be better than today.<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings:<br \/>\nJer 31:17<br \/>\nJer 29:11<br \/>\nJob 8:7<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed  weekend \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ru 4:13, 17 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. Vs 17 ,The women living there said, &#8220;Naomi has a son.&#8221; And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}