A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for May 21, 2023. Mother’s Day is a day when I am incredibly grateful but also aware of all the mothers who have suffered extreme losses. The day after Mother’s Day, I woke up to realize that a dear friend, the former President of Neumann University, a person for […]
Reflections on Our Christian Faith
Every week, a reflection is posted by a thoughtful writer, a member of our congregation. These writers are not ordained clergy but the Episcopal Church encourages every member to be a minister of Christ.
Self-Righteous Certitude
A reflection by Danny Schweers for May 14, 2023. Towards the end of his book, Spying on the South, Tony Horwitz says that self-righteous certitude is one of the great ills affecting our country, left wing or right wing. What appalled him was the self-congratulatory attitudes he encountered in people who were not only certain […]
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 […]
The Joy of Palm Sunday
A reflection by Danny Schweers for April 2, 2023. “Poignant” may be the word I am looking for to describe the triumphal entry by Jesus into Jerusalem just a week before he was crucified. I recognize the joy in the story but I cannot hear it without also anticipating the suffering that follows. The people […]
Open Heart Surgery
A reflection by Danny Schweers — After open heart surgery yesterday, my friend is doing well, thank God! Even at 84, he was fit enough to qualify for the procedure, perhaps because he has been a runner and a distance walker. At the same time, I pray for all those not doing well after their […]
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 […]
Reflection on Winter – A Time to Slow Down
A reflection for February 5, 2023 by Mary Lou Edgar. It is hard to believe that we are in the middle of winter. We have had many nice days and although there have been – and will be – some very cold days, it is a time to enjoy some of the changes that the […]
Reflection – Things kept going wrong but that didn’t bother us.
A reflection by Danny Schweers for January 29, 2023. Why did our companionship, in spite of events, continue as cheerfully as ever? Why didn’t our spirits sink? First, the Uber driver’s map app took him to the other side of Central Park from where we were actually waiting in the dark and the cold. Then, […]
Bridging The Distance
A Reflection by Danny Schweers for January 8, 2023 They died and I did nothing. Most died alone. They were caught in a blizzard and died even though they lived in a city. They went on foot looking for food or loved ones. Others were trapped in their cars. Others were warm in homes with […]
Reflection — And So This Is Christmas
A Christmas reflection by Mary Lou Edgar, December 23, 2022. Each year, as Christmas approaches, I find it to be more problematic. When we were children, it was a time of mystery, of wanting something, of high adrenaline. Our parents were often victims of shortened tempers and having too much to do. We counted the […]
Reflection: Walking The Road: My Prayer Journey
by Mary Lou Edgar, August 12, 2022 I have always felt that these words, from a song by Joe Wise, were about me —“Lord, teach us to pray. It’s been a long and cold December kind of day. With our hearts and minds all busy in our private little wars, we stand and watch each […]
The Ten Thousand Things
What are we to do? For every one thing we do, ten thousand things are left undone. While one pursuit rejoices in our attention, ten thousand pleading voices cry out in anger and anguish for us to drop what we are doing and hurry to them, to reassess our priorities in their favor, for us […]
Reflection: What Does Freedom Mean?
by Mary Lou Edgar. Freedom. We hear it all the time, and especially now as we approach Independence Day and celebrate our freedom from the British in 1776. As a child of the ’60s, there was much music that made freedom a household word (Everyone Has Got to be Free, Born Free). At the heart […]
Reflection – The Trinity – Learning and Understanding
by Mary Lou Edgar. Recently Dan and I watched the movie, The Shack. We had both read the book and been moved by it; however, the movie made it more real. The Shack is the story of a man whose child was murdered. It appears in the story that this man has a dream where […]
Reflection – We All Deserve A Chance
by Mary Lou Edgar. Many of you know that I worked in adoption and foster care for my entire career. May is Foster Care Month and I thought I would share how my work relates to my spiritual life. I knew I wanted to adopt children when I was very young. I thought about it […]
Reflection – Easter Resolutions and Real Change
Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter, May 1, 2022 by Mary Lou Edgar. “Just after daybreak Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.” –John 21:4 Can I Change? Easter is such an emotional time. Lent has ended, we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, and I get […]
Reflection: Newness Of Life
“Newness of Life” reflection for February 27, 2022 by Christina Brennan Lee for the 8th Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C. “Newness of Life” — Have you ever noticed those three words in prayers from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP)? I wouldn’t have recognized them by themselves yet I have used them countless times […]
Your Heart’s Desire
A reflection for February 20, 2022 on Genesis 45:3-11, 15; Psalm 37:1-12,41-42; 1 Corinthians 15:35-38,42-50; and Luke 6:27-38 by Danny N. Schweers. Your Heart’s Desire The Bible readings for Sunday, February 20, 2022 are powerful, some of the most challenging you will find. In Luke 6, Jesus tells us to love our enemies. In Genesis, […]
