- Ruth Porter
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 15
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She Is Becoming
RUTH
Faith Identity Healing Becoming
All My Stories
The Field Notes
- Ruth Porter
- Mar 6
- 2 min read
Category: Becoming
Inspirational Verse
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." — Jeremiah 29:11
The Quiet Work of Becoming
Becoming the woman God calls you to be doesn’t always happen in the spotlight.
Often, it happens in quiet moments the moments when life doesn’t go as planned, when doors close, or when plans fall apart. These are the moments that feel like setbacks, but in God’s hands, they are setups.
When God rewrites your story, He doesn’t just erase the parts that were hard or painful. He repurposes them. He transforms disappointment into wisdom, heartbreak into empathy, and delays into preparation for something far greater than you could imagine.
The quiet work of becoming isn’t just about learning or growing. It’s about surrendering control and trusting the Author of your story.
When Rewriting Requires a Decision
There comes a moment in every woman’s journey where she realizes that becoming who God has designed her to be isn’t just about waiting for change it’s about choosing to surrender to His plan.
Choosing faith over fear. Choosing hope over despair. Choosing God’s vision over your own understanding.
Becoming the woman He is writing you to be means recognizing that some chapters of your life aren’t meant to continue. Some stories must be released so He can begin the next chapter with purpose, clarity, and peace.
Writing the Chapter God Wants to Begin
One practice that can help you embrace God’s rewrite is simple but transformative: writing a “Chapter Declaration.”
Not a plan you control. Not a list of expectations. A prayerful acknowledgement of surrender.
A moment where you sit with God and say:
"Lord, I release this chapter to You. I trust You to write what comes next."
You might write one to:
Fear that keeps you stuck in the past
Relationships that drain your peace
Habits that pull you from purpose
Regret or shame that God has already forgiven
Dreams you thought were lost but God can redeem
When you put these words on paper, something shifts. Because surrender isn’t passive it’s active trust. And often, the moment you release control is the moment God begins His rewrite.
A Tool for Your Becoming
To help you start this process, I created a simple but meaningful exercise:
“Your God-Written Chapter Reflection.”
This guided reflection will help you prayerfully identify the areas of your life God may be asking you to release so He can write the next chapter.
Sit with it, write your heart honestly, and let God meet you in the process.
Because sometimes, the most powerful step in becoming who He designed you to be is simply this:
Choosing to let God rewrite what you thought was already written.
Closing Thought
Becoming isn’t about perfection.
It’s about alignment.
It’s the daily decision to surrender control, trust God’s timing, and walk faithfully into the story He’s writing.
And every area you release to Him is another step toward the woman He already sees in you.
Download: Your God-Written Chapter Reflection A guided exercise to help you release what no longer serves your purpose and embrace the next chapter God is writing in your life.
- Ruth Porter
- Feb 21
- 4 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
Becoming Ruth: Lessons From the Field (and the Cocoon)
Inspirational Verse: Book of Ruth 2:12 — “May the Lord reward you for what you have done; may you be richly rewarded… under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
Overview
When I reflect on Ruth, I don’t just see a woman in a field I see a woman in transformation.
Not the kind that happens overnight. Not the kind that is seen.
But the kind that mirrors a butterfly hidden in a cocoon.
Because before there are wings… there is confinement.Before there is beauty… there is breaking.Before there is elevation… there is a field.
Ruth’s story didn’t begin in favor. It began in loss. In grief. In unfamiliar territory. She was displaced, uncertain, and starting over. And yet what defined her wasn’t what she lost, but how she responded.
Her posture.
Her humility.Her loyalty.Her quiet, unwavering obedience.
In many ways, her story is our story.
We often find ourselves in seasons that feel hidden working, rebuilding, healing, waiting. Seasons that don’t look like purpose, but feel like pressure.
But what if the field is the cocoon?
What if the place you feel buried in… is actually where you are becoming?
Gleaning Before Glory: The Hidden Work of Transformation
Ruth didn’t step into favor she stepped into labor.
She gleaned.
She worked behind others. She gathered what was left over. She showed up without recognition, without applause, without assurance that it would lead anywhere.
It wasn’t glamorous.
It was stretching.It was humbling.It was necessary.
Because just like a butterfly cannot skip the cocoon, Ruth could not skip the field.
Before Boaz ever noticed her, heaven had already marked her.
Before elevation came transformation.
The field the cocoon develops what the spotlight cannot:
Humility
Endurance
Discipline
Trust
And here’s the truth we don’t always want to accept:
You cannot fly with wings you haven’t grown in private.
Ordinary Consistency, Extraordinary Becoming
Ruth didn’t perform miracles.She didn’t chase visibility.She didn’t strive for influence.
She simply remained.
Consistent.Faithful.Present.
Day after day, she returned to the same field.
And that’s what transformation looks like.
A butterfly doesn’t become beautiful in a moment it becomes through a process of slow, unseen change. Inside the cocoon, everything is being restructured. What once crawled is being reshaped to fly.
Ruth’s consistency did the same.
Her quiet obedience placed her in a story far greater than her circumstances a lineage that would lead to Jesus.
What looked like survival… was actually divine positioning.
What looks small in your life right now may be carrying generational weight.
The Fields We Don’t Always Recognize as Sacred
We may not be gathering barley, but we are all in a field—or a cocoon—of some kind.
Our fields look like:
Parenthood — showing up day after day, pouring out love when you feel empty
School — studying, stretching, pushing through exhaustion
Healing — doing the unseen, uncomfortable inner work
Workplaces — serving with integrity when no one is watching
These places don’t feel like transformation.They feel repetitive. Quiet. Sometimes even isolating.
But so is the cocoon.
And yet it is in that hidden place where everything changes.
Becoming Ruth means embracing your field. Becoming the butterfly means trusting your cocoon.
The Tension of Becoming
There is a moment in transformation that feels like breaking.
Where you outgrow who you were, but haven’t fully stepped into who you’re becoming.
That space is uncomfortable.
It’s the tension between crawling and flying.Between gleaning and being seen.Between who you were and who God is shaping you into.
Ruth lived in that tension.
And so do we.
But what feels like restriction is often protection. What feels like delay is often development.
God does His deepest work where no one is watching.
You Were Never Meant to Become Alone
Even in her becoming, Ruth was not alone she had Naomi.
Community matters in transformation.
Because let’s be honest cocoons can feel isolating.
That’s why we need people who remind us:
You’re still growing
You’re still becoming
This season is not the end
We need spaces where we can be honest, supported, and strengthened.
Becoming is personal but it was never meant to be lonely.
Finding Purpose in the Unseen
The hardest part of becoming is honoring what feels invisible.
The quiet prayers.The small acts of obedience.The unseen sacrifices.
But Ruth’s story reminds us:
Nothing is wasted.
Every moment in the field. Every moment in the cocoon. Every moment you chose faith over fear—
It is all being used.
Even now, something is forming in you that you cannot fully see yet.
Closing Thought
Becoming isn’t glamorous.
It’s hidden. It’s stretching. It’s sacred.
The field is not punishment. The cocoon is not confinement.
They are preparation.
And just like Ruth found refuge under God’s wings, there is something powerful about surrendering to the process—even when you don’t understand it.
Because one day, what felt like breaking… will reveal itself as becoming.
You may be gleaning now. You may feel hidden now.
But wings are forming.
And when it’s time you will not just walk into your next season…
You will fly.
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