Preparing Our Hearts for Worship
Hello, my PVC family.
I’ll be honest with you—it’s been a hard week. An emotional one. The kind of week where life hands you things you don’t fully understand and you find yourself having to choose, again, what you actually believe about God.
And here's what I keep coming back to: this is exactly what our faith is for. Not just for the mountaintop moments, but for the valleys too. For the confusion, the grief, the unanswered questions. Faith was never meant to be easy—it was meant to be real. And in the hard moments, we get to find out just how real it is.
So this week I'm coming to worship with a tender heart. But it's still a heart that wants to bow before a good Father and a good King—even in the things I cannot see or make sense of right now.
That's my invitation to you this Sabbath. Maybe your week has been full of joy and everything feels bright—come and celebrate! Or maybe you are more like me, and things have been heavy—come anyway and know you're in good company. Either way, it can be well with our souls. Because of who God is, it can always be well.
Click one of the buttons below to listen ahead on Spotify or YouTube, or feel free to make your own playlist.
This Sabbath we’ll be singing: Good Good Father, Bless God, I Belong to Jesus, Jesus at the Center, and It Is Well.
Every single one of these songs holds that beautiful tension—the tension of choosing faith in the middle of real life. Of declaring that God is good even when it’s hard to see. Of anchoring our hearts to something bigger than our circumstances.
And speaking of I Belong to Jesus—oh, I have missed this song and I cannot wait to sing it with you again. It has been too long! Give it a special listen this week! Let it remind you of exactly whose you are.
It will be good to be back with you after three weeks away. I have missed you more than you know.
Come as you are this Sabbath, PVC. All of you is welcome here.
With love,
Hannah, Your Minister of Music
I’ll be honest with you—it’s been a hard week. An emotional one. The kind of week where life hands you things you don’t fully understand and you find yourself having to choose, again, what you actually believe about God.
And here's what I keep coming back to: this is exactly what our faith is for. Not just for the mountaintop moments, but for the valleys too. For the confusion, the grief, the unanswered questions. Faith was never meant to be easy—it was meant to be real. And in the hard moments, we get to find out just how real it is.
So this week I'm coming to worship with a tender heart. But it's still a heart that wants to bow before a good Father and a good King—even in the things I cannot see or make sense of right now.
That's my invitation to you this Sabbath. Maybe your week has been full of joy and everything feels bright—come and celebrate! Or maybe you are more like me, and things have been heavy—come anyway and know you're in good company. Either way, it can be well with our souls. Because of who God is, it can always be well.
Click one of the buttons below to listen ahead on Spotify or YouTube, or feel free to make your own playlist.
This Sabbath we’ll be singing: Good Good Father, Bless God, I Belong to Jesus, Jesus at the Center, and It Is Well.
Every single one of these songs holds that beautiful tension—the tension of choosing faith in the middle of real life. Of declaring that God is good even when it’s hard to see. Of anchoring our hearts to something bigger than our circumstances.
And speaking of I Belong to Jesus—oh, I have missed this song and I cannot wait to sing it with you again. It has been too long! Give it a special listen this week! Let it remind you of exactly whose you are.
It will be good to be back with you after three weeks away. I have missed you more than you know.
Come as you are this Sabbath, PVC. All of you is welcome here.
With love,
Hannah, Your Minister of Music