Boaz blesses the foreign widow gleaning in his field with words that summarize her whole story: may you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.

By the book's end, Boaz's own wings are the answer to his prayer. Watch how God shelters people, usually through people, and where this little love story ends up: at David, and beyond him, at Bethlehem's greater Son.

Ruth came under the LORD's wings and found them feathered with barley, kindness, and a redeemer's covenant love; grace in this book always wears work clothes. Boaz did not merely admire her faith; he funded it, protected it, and married into it, and God folded their ordinary faithfulness into the genealogy of kings.

The official at Cana models the posture underneath it all: he took Jesus at His word and started walking, healing already accomplished in a sentence he could not yet verify. That is refuge-taking in action. Get under the wings today, His word believed, His people embraced, and then be someone's Boaz: shelter that shows up as actual bread.