TAKDIR
TAKDIR One thing I treasured as a child was the Bible I received from my mother. I do not remember exactly when or where she gave it to me, although I think she would remember the details better, but I clearly remember how excited I was. What made this Bible special was that it had pictures in every book, summarizing each story. I have always been a bookworm since I was young, and if a book had pictures, I loved it even more. Because of those illustrations, I became even more interested in reading it. One story I remember vividly is the Book of Ruth. There was a picture of a woman running along a road toward another woman. As a child, I kept wondering what her story was. Since the Book of Ruth is quite short, I read and finished it in a single day. At that time, I did not really understand the story of Ruth and Boaz. What stayed with me instead was Ruth’s love for her mother in law and her persistence in staying with Naomi, a widow who had lost her sons. That image of one woman s...
