 We continue with the Bible Characters series that we started last Sunday. Na tukanzana naomi tukailewana, tukafanya naomi na Ruth at the same time. And today we want to look at mama naomi. Kwa smatopi ufo today mama naomi being mother's day. What better way to mark mother's day by just looking at these three interesting women in the book of Ruth chapter 1 verse 8 to 18, especially the great mother naomi. Mama naomi sits a very great example. If you read from verse 8 to 18. So after staying in Moab for like 10 years, naomi lost her husband, lost her two sons. She was just in a state of just giving up. She had given up. She even calls herself Mara, the bitter one. She has lost her husband, she has lost her two sons. She has nothing. She's left with two daughters-in-laws. Now she had that farmer in Bethlehem, had come to an end and the Lord had blessed the land. She's in Moab. Remember the caste nation. Now naomi decides, let me return home. This home, God has remembered us. There is no more fine farmer. There is bread in the house of bread. That is Bethlehem. Now when she decides to go back, naomi urges his daughters-in-laws. Kumbukawa, her two sons died pastun and before the pastun they had married. The women were opa and Ruth. Now naomi is here, pleading and urging his daughters-in-laws. Come on, don't go with me. Don't go with me. I'm too old even to give birth to other sons, to give them to you according to their culture those days. It was that possible. So I was like, she was like, no, I cannot go with you. Please remain here. I bless you. Is she even going to an extent? Blessing her daughter-in-laws. I bless you, my daughter-in-laws. Go back to your mother's house. May God bless you. May he bless you with other husband. May God give you comfort in the arms of other husband. His mother must say that part. He left that part the way she was blessing her daughter-in-laws. Go, go with the Lord. Let God bless you again. That is a great, great example to all mothers and me being an aspiring mother. You know, it teaches me something that bless, bless, release blessing. Release blessing that will lift other people to the next destiny. Release blessing. Bless people around you. Bless your children. Bless your sisters. Bless your parents. Bless everyone around you. You are a mother. You are a daughter. You are a son. I don't know who you are, but what I can encourage and what we learn from Naomi is that bless, bless, bless. She blessed her daughter-in-laws. She add them. Go back to your mama. Go back to your mother's house. That may God bless you and comfort you in the arms of another man. But you know what? The first time she add these daughter-in-laws, Opa and Ruth were like, no, we shall go with you. No, no, let us just go with you. She add them again. Can you see? You are beautiful. Please go back to your mother's house. We have a story. Now, Opa said once, I will go with you, then change her mind later. When she was as the second time, she changed her mind and like, okay, we will go with you. Watcha mi nishie. Ume, ume, kutu, ume, ume, kutu, ume, kitu, you are not even sure. Opa is a good example of our generation right now. Uku shu wa ni kama una taku kapa ama kusia. Uku shu wa kama un takaku bakina Naomi, ama usi inja Rosako. Uku shu kama un takaku ka church, ama un takaku na club. So leu kuko church, sandi kuko church una praise and worship, weekdays kuko club. Be Ruth. Because Ruth made up her mind that you know what, where you go, I will go. That is Ruth chapter 16, chapter 1 verse 16 to 18, but Ruth replied, don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die. And there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely. If anything but death separates me and you. That is the statement Ruth made. Na enda nawewe mam. Na enda nawewe mamana omi. I'm going with you. I'm not leaving you. So be that Ruth. Be the Ruth. Don't be the Opa. Don't changanya mind ya kuatileu kua papali. Make up your mind that I'm going with you. I'm going with you. Nothing, nothing gonna change that. Thank you so much.