But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.”
The first time the family gathers after a death, you might find yourself hovering by the kitchen door, unsure where to sit. The person who held everything together is gone, and without them the room can feel as if it belongs to somebody else.