Reflections by Mary Lou Edgar

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for September 15, 2024. Churches throughout Wilmington (and the United States) are finding that fewer people are regular participants at church on Sunday. In addition to making it difficult for churches to succeed financially, this means that people are not benefiting from all that the church has to offer […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 25, 2024. At the liturgy last Sunday, my husband and I were honored. We had our marriage blessed by Fr. Patrick in the presence of all those who were at the service. We asked for this as a special way to celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary. I […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 4, 2024. Each morning when I wake up, I thank God for getting me — and hopefully the rest of the people I love — through the night. Then I get up and go sit in my favorite chair to look at the Delaware River. I am […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for July 14, 2024. Relationship is one of the buzz words for this generation. Sometimes it appears to be of great importance; other times it just fills in a space. There are so many types of relationships that it is hard to see them all as being equal in […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for April 21, 2024. Change is challenging! It seems that just as we get things fairly straight in our minds, something changes, and we are back to square one. I struggled with this a great deal during Lent this year. I had a lot of questions. They were my […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024. Easter Sunday is such a celebratory time! Throughout Lent we have attempted to pray, fast, treat others kindly, and make ourselves and our world a better place. Whenever I get to Easter, I have a tendency to feel like I just crossed the […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for March 10, 2024. “Here I Am Lord”  is one of my favorites hymns. While I was in college, I became a great fan of the St. Louis Jesuits. Their music provided great inspiration for me, and I listened to it on a regular basis. It is particularly powerful […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for February 18, 2024. It feels as though the last weeks have been full of activity. Our church family has had many celebrations. It is good to be back together in person, and those events have drawn us closer to one another, but every so often, it feels like […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for January 28, 2024. Time is passing so quickly; many of us can barely keep up. Advent and Christmas mark the beginning of the church year: we celebrate that time by anticipating and commemorating the birth of our Savior. Then comes the Epiphany when we think of the Magi […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for January 7, 2024. I want to be better at something. That is what the whole idea of a new year means to me. But that idea is pretty common. Don’t I want to write something uncommon for you to read? But I keep coming back to the idea […]

A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for December 17, 2023. I have always felt a strong connection to Mary, the mother of Jesus. I am named for her and for most of my life, I have considered her to be a model of faith and unconditional love. When I learned about Mary, I was young […]

Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for November 26, 2023. Thursday was Thanksgiving and for most of us that is the beginning of the holiday season. It is sometimes hard to remember that with all the Christmas decorations coming out in October, but I like to remember the holidays of my childhood. Thanksgiving was so important […]

A reflection for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 15, 2023 by Mary Lou Edgar “Hope” is an interesting word. It gets used about as often as “faith”. It is one of those nebulous, semi-religious words that dares a friend (or relative) to question what you are saying. I know what I’m talking about. I had faith and […]

Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for September 3, 2023. Recently, my immediate family had the opportunity to visit my extended family on the Virginia/West Virginia border. In other words, in Appalachia. I remember the first time I realized that this is a poor part of our country. It was when John Kennedy ran for president, […]

Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 13, 2023. Right now, for the people at SsAM, transition is a powerful word. We waited to hear who our new rector would be, and now we know. There are so many Biblical stories of waiting for messengers from God. So many of the messengers struggle. We need […]

A reflection for July 25, 2023 by Mary Lou Edgar. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.” —Mark 12: 29-31 Each of us has been […]