A Healing Faith

In today’s gospel* Jesus challenges a faith that is defined more by adherence to human constructed proprieties than by an ever-expanding heart of love. He calls us to deep inner reflection, to listen and understand where we are coming from in our individual and corporate desires and ways and where God might be calling us […]

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 […]

Pentecost Hearing

Our talk began simply: “What’s good about writing an IO reflection? What’s hard for you?” We laughed as common complaints came up about keeping the reflection short enough for reading on a cell-phone, and nodded over differences in how long one needed to dwell with the scripture to let a personal experience emerge. Although we […]

Holiness – May 11, 2023

“Holiness is not an achievement; it is a Grace. A Grace called Awareness, a grace called Looking, Observing, Understanding. If you would only switch on the light of awareness and observe yourself and everything around you throughout the day… clearly, exactly as it is without the slightest distortion or addition, and if you observed this […]