We recently hosted some sweet friends who were on a coast to coast road trip.

We hadn't seen Joy since she visited our village for Christmas and New Years in 2009. 

And we had never met her husband, Ryan, or their spunky daughter, Cora, although we have prayed diligently for each one of them to come into Joy's life.

We picked peaches together, 

played paper football together,

and made blackberry pies from the blackberries Katherine and I had picked just a few weeks earlier.