Good-bye for Now – May 31, 2023
This is the final inspirational quote from InwardOutward.org. We are suspending these because our delivery system has been unable to post these quotes at a regular time. We hope you will enjoy the weekly gospel reflection on Saturday and engage with the reflection questions as our way to let the words of scripture come alive […]
Grace and Impatience – Oct. 19, 2022
In our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our grinding despairwe doubt that you will.And in this privileged placewe are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do weand by those who despair more deeply than do we.Look upon your church and its pastorsin this season of hopewhich runs so quickly to fatigueand in […]
A Troubled Heart
Today, as I write this, the newsfeed is filled with the aftermath of yet another shooting at a school, where 19 little children and two adults were killed and a lot of others wounded. I want to scream, “What goes through the mind of someone that makes it ok to shoot at little children?” Instead, […]
Doubt and Trust
As I write this, it is still Lent, and in the locked room of my imagination Jesus is still headed towards the cross, and not yet walking through walls to join the cowering disciples who watched their hopes die along with him on the cross.* Instead of replying “He is risen, indeed” to the victorious […]
