701 Adorning the Dark with Drew Sonnenberg

Welcome back to the Hearts & Hands podcast. New host (and pilot episode guest) Kent Reeder talks with former host (and renewed pilot episode guest) Drew Sonnenberg. The episode features Caleb Schmiege's recording of his and Melanie Bourman's arrangement of the hymn Now Rest Beneath Night's Shadow by Paul Gerhardt, and is built around this quote from Andrew Peterson's book, Adorning the Dark: Those of us who write, who sing, who paint, must remember that to a child a song may glow like a nightlight in a scary bedroom. It may be the only thing holding back the monsters. That story may be the only beautiful, true thing that makes it through all the ugliness of a little girl’s world to rest in her secret heart. May we take that seriously. It is our job, it is our ministry, it is the sword we swing in the Kingdom, to remind children that the good guys win, that the stories are true, and that a fool’s hope may be the best kind.