I've been reading the book of Ruth the past two nights,

and I noticed the way that they talked to each other.

⁴ Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!"
"The LORD bless you!" they called back.

When was the last time you greeted your friends or co-workers with

"The LORD be with you!"?

¹⁰ "The LORD bless you, my daughter," he replied.

¹ Then the elders and all those at the gate said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. ¹² Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah."

Why don't we talk like that anymore?