Artist: Jodee Huish
Title: Covenant Over Comfort
Medium: Mixed media oil on birchwood
Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 2 inches
Price: $2,500
Artist Statement:
How can you be drowning in a tsunami and starving in a drought at the same time?
I SEE YOU
Ruth, your story begins in creation’s wellspring. Marriage. Home. Belonging.
Then came the fall… not gently, but all at once.
Famine emptied the land. You were widowed. Grief turned Naomi bitter cold, until she even hated her own name.
Give up. Go back.
You refused.
Your fierce love was unshaken. You chose covenant over comfort and trusted forward.
Inside, starving in drought. Outside, drowning in seas.
Humbly gleaning leftovers. Surrendering through the ache. Like a young sunflower, turning toward the Light and reorienting through the night.
I SEE GOD
Sunshine in darkness. Peace in the storm. Bread of Life in famine. Living Water in drought.
While Ruth grieved, You prepared redemption. Boaz was there: kinsman-redeemer, protector, restorer.
Through Boaz, I remember: You are the Great Redeemer. You redeem what seemed beyond saving and restore what felt hopelessly broken.
You descended below, then walked these waters, whispering: Come and see.
I SEE ME
I may never be widowed or endure a nation’s famine, but we all know storms that bury us alive and droughts that leave us thirsting.
Your story is ours today.
I pray my heart echoes yours:
Where You go, my Lord, I will go.
Where You abide, I will abide.
Your people are my people.
You, God, are my God.
Where You lead, I will follow.
Where You stay, I will stay forever.
Ruth 1:16 — Scripture Selfie
