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Sound & Season is a daily audio devotional designed to connect the routine moments of life to the rhythms of the Church seasons.
According to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, time passes faster on the top of a mountain than in a valley. It's because of the gravitational pull that occurs at higher altitudes. If you were to put a clock on the top of a mountain and another one in the valley, eventually you would see them telling a different time. And that is because the closer you get to the gravitational pull of the earth, time moves more slowly. But we all know the varying experiences of time.
Jeffrey Heine:An hour with a loved one, feeling so fast and fleeting. In times of pain or sorrow, where minutes dragged on like days. Acknowledged or not, we each have some sense of the relativity of time, or at least the relative experiences of time. In the words of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, Before Einstein told us it wasn't true, how the devil did we get it into our heads that time passes everywhere at the same speed? It is hard to be deliberate when time seems to be moving faster than we can keep up, and the global stopping and restarting brought about by the pandemic has not aided our senses or success in keeping time.
Jeffrey Heine:And yet, we are called by our Creator to make the most of this time that we have, these moments, minutes, and days. In many ways, the church seasons offer us the chance to journey down into the valley where time moves more slowly, if ever so slightly. During Lent, the forty six days before the celebration of Easter, we are invited to journey through the valley where time slows down. Here, we meditate on the scriptures which testify to the passion of Jesus of Nazareth. We ruminate on the wildness of God's love for sinners, a love which turns defiant enemies into beloved children.
Jeffrey Heine:And we seek simple means of self denial to orient our ultimate longings on the bounty of God's wealth of grace and mercy. This year, we will approach Lent with weekly meditations on God's word and offer a brief prayer asking the Lord to meet us in this unique season by his spirit, that we would, in the words of the Apostle Paul, make the most use of this time. We are also thrilled this year to offer a beautiful companion to our devotional. An instrumental score by composer Kyle Carpenter will accompany the devotional for each week of Lent. Each ambient instrumental piece will journey with us and move us over the six weeks of Lent from the dim light of the valley to the brilliant light of Resurrection Sunday.
Jeffrey Heine:The pieces are designed to offer deliberate time for meditative reflection on God's Word and the orientation of our hearts on Christ. So, join us for this weekly walk in the slowed time of Lent so that our souls might find a refreshed posture of adoration and thanksgiving in the death and resurrection of our savior and King. For Redeemer Community Church, I'm Jeff Heine. This is Sound and Season. This year, Sound and Season will take a weekly format beginning on Ash Wednesday, March fifth, with new episodes every Sunday morning throughout Lent.
Jeffrey Heine:Please subscribe now and share our audio devotional with friends and family. For more information about Lent at Redeemer, please visit rccbirmingham.org/lent.