Hurricanes, Fires, and Floods and More — Anytime, All the Time, and Everywhere I Choose To Watch, To Listen in Fear, with Tears, with Rage — OR… A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for August 31, 2025. … Or I can take a breath, a long, slow, deep breath, or turn off the 24/7 loud […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
“Developer” and “lawyer” are NOT bad words and it saddens me to hear those words used that way. A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for August 24, 2025. I think of Chris White, who was both lawyer and developer. As a lawyer, he worked for Community Legal Aid Society, which offers free legal assistance to […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
I have been thinking (as we all have) of our world situation right now and wanted to share with you a prayer written by Marion Wright Edleman. She adapted it from something written by Ina Hughes. A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 17, 2025. Marion Wright Edleman is the founder of The Children’s […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
At turbulent times like ours, it is useful, almost therapeutic, to contemplate a message about the power of faith that contains practical examples from the past. A reflection by Bob Young for Sunday, August 10, 2025. Early in Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews, believers are reminded that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, […]| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Organizing meeting for Healing Tree Mentor Program, Saturday, September 27, 10am at SsAM.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
The best art, the best writing, opens up a world to the one who looks, to the one who reads. The medium carries the message but the message is something other than daubs of paint on a canvas or an alphabet arranged into words and paragraphs. A reflection by Danny Nelson Schweers for Sunday, July READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
My head is swirling in words. On Mondays I write pretty much all day ~ well, actually, I sit and ponder and wonder and walk around and sit down and play with consonants and contractions and vowels and grammar and phrasing and sentences and punctuation and paragraphs until they come together in a way that READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to reflect quite a bit. In our present-day world, it is a necessity. I work each day to have time to let my thoughts move to the place where our world circumstances cause me to be confused and perplexed. I then begin to pray about it.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In reviewing this Sunday’s liturgy, I was inspired most by the words of the Prophet Jeremiah. | Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Recently I was asked to write prayers for a camp week in another Episcopal Diocese. I felt honored to be asked and accepted gratefully. Their theme for the week is “Creation” — how God interacts with it, especially water. They’ll be using the Thanksgiving over the Water from the Baptismal service in the Book of Common Prayer (pages 306-70) to focus their theme. That gave me quite a bit of material to work with.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
In a letter to the congregation, Father Patrick called on everyone active at our church to participate in one of five upcoming listening sessions that begin July 13. Dearly Beloved in Christ, I write to you today to share information about upcoming community listening sessions that we will host in July. Below is information READ MORE »| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
What makes a place feel like home? Something more than familiarity. There is a relaxing connection, a letting go of tension, feeling comfortable and safe and something more: a resonance, a connection.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Dearly beloved in Christ,| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
It must be a great disappointment to God, says Mary Oliver, if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
The world has never had it so good. By many indicators — energy use, life expectancy, income, education, communications, fewer deaths due to warfare, etc. — more people have better lives today than ever before. We have so much to be thankful for!| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
So much to do and nobody else is going to do it. It is up to me. The other eight billion people on the planet have other plans.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
“I will light candles this Christmas” is a poem by Howard Thurman that deserves everyone’s attention.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
We are quickly moving towards Christmas.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
SsAM Presents = Upcoming Events at or supported by the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, downtown Wilmington, Delaware.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
Everyone wants to fit in. Everyone wants to stand out. In. Out. In. Out. We are all dancing.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for December 1, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for November 24, 2024.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)
These words — Be afraid. Be VERY afraid — are usually said in jest. Usually.| Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew & Matthew (SsAM)