I asked God for one specific thing that mattered more than anything, and he did not do it. How do I trust him again after that?

“And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?”

Naomi returns to Bethlehem after a famine has taken her husband and both her sons in a foreign country. She asks the neighbors to stop using her name, which meant pleasant, and to call her bitter instead. The book does not correct her or hurry her along. It records the accusation, then spends three quiet chapters showing provision arriving in ordinary ways she could not yet see.

“Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.”

Martha meets Jesus four days after her brother's funeral, and the first thing she says is that he came too late. She had sent word, she had waited, and he had deliberately delayed. Jesus does not defend himself and does not scold her; he stays in the conversation and then weeps at the grave. Disappointment spoken directly to him is not treated as disloyalty.