A Divine romance

Be nice to your mother-in-law, the rewards may indeed be rich.

Mother-in-laws generally suffer from a bad press. As long as I can remember, they were so often the subject of jokes – usually bad ones – that I grew up fully expecting to inherit a monster along with a bride. I believe the time has come to bring a little balance to that perspective by restoring the honour of the role, and it was in studying the Book of Ruth that I saw it in a whole new light – where loyalty to a mother-in-law changed the world forever!