AFTER HER ARRIVAL in Bethlehem, Ruth soon began reaping in the barley fields as a gleaner in order to obtain food for her and Naomi. This reaping of grain, though it appeared to be an insignificant and lowly bit of activity, was not an unimportant incident in Ruth’s life. Rather, it was that which gained her a husband through whom she had a son which made her an ancestress of Jesus Christ. Not infrequently in life, events which we may consider insignificant turn out to have