Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Ruth 1:16 (NLT)
Naomi's life got very messy. First, her husband died. That made things a little uncertain but she still had two sons so she was able to work through it. A little later, her sons died. In that culture at that time, being a woman without a husband and without sons was catastrophic. She did have two daughters-in-law but they were in the same boat. No husband, no sons.
Naomi decided to head back to her hometown. She packed everything up and took to the road. Orpah and Ruth went with her. Along the way, she realized that just because her life got messy, she didn't need to place that burden on her daughters so she turned to them and said "Go home. I have nothing to give you and the life I am looking at is not going to be fun. Go, take care of yourselves. No need for you to share messy with me."
Orpah reluctantly went back home to her family. Ruth refused. She was committed to Naomi, mess and all. The future for her was uncertain. She would be a foreigner in this new land and may not be accepted. She would have to work hard to provide for her and Naomi. It would have been so much easier to go home, marry again and start another family. But she didn't.
Ruth chose to stay in the mess. She chose to stick it out and support the person God put in her life. In the end, she became the mother of Obed, who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David, who was a descendant of Jesus.
You just never can sometimes tell how God works it out if you stay in the messy.