Peach Pie

Our peach tree is so loaded down with its burden of beautiful orange/yellow fruit. It looks how I feel sometimes with its drooping branches brushing the ground.  We've been picking a few ripe ones all week, but they should be full on in the next couple days. 

Sitting there eating my peach I remembered a funny experience I had while making a peach pie on my mission. I was serving in Corry, PA and had been teaching a wonderful man Al Wood, who had gone through several sets of missionaries at this point. He and his wife Karen would have us over often and we all became really good friends. One day in February they had us over to help make pie.  We ended up making a strawberry pie and a peach pie. They looked so beautiful! I had some of the peach pie and the first bite was a little disappointing.  The second bite was disgusting!  We found out that instead of using frozen peaches he had pulled out a bag of frozen squash instead! They both looked so similar in color that during the whole baking process we didn't have a clue. Good times that. 

The law of the harvest in Gal 6:7 says . . 'for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap".it continues on in vs9 'And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.' We don't enjoy the fruits of our labors immediately or sometimes even soon after.  Like putting up fruit, sometimes our pay day comes later. It is motivation to keep on planting seeds and await the promised blessings. Al was finally baptized at the end of that month, but so many times we don't necessarily see the fruits of our labors. Sometimes we must plant trees that we will never sit under, if only to help those who come after us.