A rough start to the week, a lesson about staying on course, two unexpected friendships, and a pair of chocolate-chip cookies that meant far more than they should have.

A tax bill. A mystery leak under the truck. Not exactly the way you want to start the week. But Forrest Frank’s “OKAY!” gives Mac and Rhoni a place to begin — with gratitude, perspective, and the reminder that one rough morning does not get the last word.

They also talk about the increasingly blurry line between country and contemporary Christian music, including Brandon Lake and Lainey Wilson’s “The Jesus I Know Now,” before the conversation turns toward Rhoni’s week at the Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth.

The word that stayed with her was access: how willing are we to let God lead, correct, and make the small course adjustments that keep us from drifting one or two degrees off? That idea becomes very personal when Rhoni tells the story of going to the convention alone, meeting Inobe in a bookstore, being invited to lunch by a stranger named Barbara, and receiving two chocolate-chip cookies with a meaning neither woman could have planned.

Then, because a Weekend Joyride cannot stay misty-eyed forever, Mac and Rhoni finish with the Blue Bridge Boys — a very young, very talented bluegrass group that has Rhoni’s Texas roots tapping.

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