How do you define prayer for yourself? What does it mean ~ or not ~ for you in everyday life? A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for May 19, 2024. Some of us have come to the Episcopal Church from other Christian denominations that have taught us the words to pray such as The Lord’s […]
Reflections by Christina Brennan Lee
Reflections written by Christina Brennan Lee for the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, downtown Wilmington, Delaware. BIO: For more than 25 years, Christina Brennan Lee was a consultant/trainer in the areas of Interpersonal Skills, Conflict Management, Communications, Strategic Planning, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, etc. She has been a consultant to and has been employed in Corporate, Non-Profit, Public/Govt, Educational, and Religious organizations around the US including the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. Currently through writing, small group facilitation, and the occasional seminar or retreat, she works in the areas of prayer, spirituality, and adult Christian Education. She has an MA in Religious Studies and Vatican Diploma as Teacher of Religion from St. Charles Borromeo School of Theology, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; BA, AS, Psychology and Human Resource Management from Widener University, Chester, PA; and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
After Easter, Now What?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for April 7, 2024. How often have we simply walked through the idea of the penitence of Lent, the excitement of Palm Sunday, the passion of Holy Week, and the joyful celebration of Your miraculous Resurrection, taking it all for granted because it happens for us every year? And […]
Saint Patrick – We Hardly Know Ye
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for March 17, 2024. Saint Patrick is known widely as the Patron Saint of Ireland and yet he wasn’t Irish. He was a 16-year-old Romanized Briton in the 5th Century when he was captured from his home, probably by Irish raiders, and sold into slavery. For six years his […]
Thomas Merton: God Is Ever With Us
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for February 25, 2024. There are many theological, spiritual, mystical, and influential writers from centuries, decades, and even weeks ago available for a variety of interests. Every social media platform has them with their own particular flavors and perspectives. There are untold numbers of them who have influenced me […]
Lent: Beginning Again and Again and Again
A refection by Christina Brennan Lee written for February 11, 2024. Our first month of a new year has ended as the second begins with the “leap” of an extra day at its end. The Season of Epiphany concludes this Sunday with a grand celebration as preparation for the beginning of Lent on Wednesday, February […]
The Root Cause of Racial Segregation
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for 14 January 2024. “How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” ~ The Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Here I am, truly preaching to the very knowing […]
A Light Shines in the Darkness
A reflection for Christmas Eve 2023 by Christina Brennan Lee. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. —[Isaiah 9:2] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. […]
It’s Not Even Lent and I’m Talking about Fast-ing?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for November 12, 2023. Life moves at warp speed for many of us. So many have-to’s, so many must-do’s, so many want-to’s, so many didn’t do’s…so many shoulds, coulds, woulds … so little time. How do we know how to prioritize what is most important? How can we stop […]
Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” —The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for Sunday, October 23, 2023. As the world spins in chaos, this quote brings me back […]
Let us again be as children
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good… nothing is too difficult for children. ― Madeleine L’Engle* […]
What Un-forgivable is still Forgivable?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for September 10, 2023. What do you pray for? Who? In a Canadian murder mystery series I’ve been reading, when I should be doing other things, one of the regular characters is an elderly, eccentric ~ and/or crazy ~ but brilliant poet named Ruth. She is famous for being […]
Amazing Grace in Action
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for August 20, 2023. Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement … get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be […]
The Doors of Life
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell* A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for July 30, 2023. The doors of life are as many and as variable […]
Changing the Pray-er
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ― Søren Kierkegaard* A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for July 9, 2023. Dear God, Almighty, Everlasting, and Eternal! Of course I want to influence You. Of course I want You to do what I […]
WWNMD?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee, June 16, 2023. Nelson Mandela said: “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely […]
Get Fired Up!
A reflection for Pentecost by Christina Brennan Lee, May 26, 2023. Today we are blasé. Too many in our own SsAM real or virtual pews aren’t reading this E-Blast or Weekly Vision at all. We show up at our preferred appointed hour and go home, or watch online and don’t read what arrives in hand, […]
Reflection: A Pause for Effect? Psalm 61:4
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for May 7, 2023. -Let me abide in your tent forever, find refuge under the shelter of your wings. Selah New RSV -I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah New KJV -I will dwell in thy Tabernacle forever, and […]
Depending On Faith Alone
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for March 5, 2023. For the Sunday and also the Daily Lectionary (appointed readings), we are given an Old Testament passage, a Psalm, an Epistle (a New Testament Letter which can be left out), and, of course, a reading from the Gospel. They are generally arranged with a common […]
An Accounting
Reflection by Christina Brennan Lee on the Rev. Absalom Jones for 10 February 2023. You must before your God appear to give an account of your transactions, and how you spent your time, when here.” ~ The Rev. Absalom Jones On Cedar Beach Road (DE Route 36), just 0.2 miles from Delaware Route 1, near […]
Reflection – This Is For The Birds!
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee on 2023-01-24. I’ve wanted a bird feeder for as long as I’ve lived in my current home, over 14 years. I love waking to the sound of birdsongs when I have the window open and throughout the day. I’ve had feeders in various places I’ve lived and they always […]
