Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. 

Proverbs 4:23, NIV

We’re Tuning Up at Pilgrim!

There’s always something going on at Pilgrim Church, and today as I write this, the Tuner is in the building. Organs are special instruments, with thousands of moving parts. There keys, stops and pedals only begin to tell the story of what’s going on beneath. Miles and miles of wire, speakers, switches and so much more work together to bring the mighty sounds Monica presents for us week after week.

Because of all these complex parts, some electronic and some mechanical, eventually organs work themselves out of tune. What’s in tune, you might ask, if you don’t know. Well, it’s about pitch, and the basic pitches inside the instrument.

Have You Ever Heard of an “A 440?”

A440 is a “universal pitch.”pitch standard,” that is, it represents the sound the 440 megahertz waveform makes when expressed as a musical pitch. If you know anything about keyboard instruments, this equates to “A above Middle C,” with middle C being the middle key on a standard 88-key piano.

Bottom line: if you can’t tune an instrument to pitches that other instruments play with (or with itself) then it will sound out of tune.

Is Your Heart Tuned to God this Lent?

Maybe other things have been crowding God out of your life. It happens! Lent is an opportunity to focus, to “tune ourselves” back into God. I hope you’re attending church this Lent with a sense of God following you out of the sanctuary and into the rest of your life.

How might you do that? A simple Lenten prayer might be, “Forgive me God, when I focus on things other than you. Walk with me through this Lent and beyond.”

Join us for worship this week at 10am where you can hear our freshly tuned organ and tune yourself to God’s song again! Our theme this week is “Jesus is the light in the darkness,” and our focus scripture will be Mark 14:12-26.