Heart and Hope in Ordinary Time

After the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, we are approaching “Ordinary Time” in the church year. Ordinary Time is where faith stretches out into daily life, where there are fewer mountaintop moments and more steady steps. It’s the season of growing, practicing, and showing up again and again.

That feels especially fitting as we begin our Heart and Hope Gatherings at the end of the month. These gatherings aren’t about having all the right words or polished stories. They’re about listening and sharing a little of ourselves. Ordinary conversations, shared space, simple hospitality. And somehow, that’s often where the sacred shows up most clearly.

This week, this month, this season, may we lean into the beauty of the ordinary. The familiar songs. The familiar faces. The chance to know one another a little better and be known in return. That’s holy work, even when it looks wonderfully simple.

Jennifer Ketcham

Worship Leader