Robert T. Young - "Journey Inward, Journey Outward" (May 2, 1976)

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-	Let us join in our corporate responsive prayer	11:33
	of confession.	11:36
	Have mercy upon us, O God,	11:40
	according to thy loving kindness,	11:43
	according unto the multitude of that tender mercies.	11:45
	Black out our transgressions.	11:49
	(audience collectively replying)	11:52
	For we acknowledge our transgressions	12:00
	and our sin is ever before us.	12:02
	(audience collectively replying)	12:07
	Purge us with his and we shall be clean.	12:23
	Wash us and we shall be whiter than snow.	12:27
	(audience collectively replying)	12:31
	Restore unto us the joy of thy salvation	12:39
	and uphold us with thy free spirit.	12:42
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	For thou desires its not sacrifice.	12:55
	Else, we give it.	12:59
	Thou delight is not in burnt offering.	13:02
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	Hear our confessions for Christ sake.	13:17
	O God of justice and mercy.	13:42
	Grant us the assurance of your forgiveness and pardon.	13:47
	So that we will not be paralyzed by our sin and guilt.	13:52
	But may be restored to a loving relationship,	13:57
	to you, our family, our neighbors and our world.	14:02
	We pray in the spirit of Jesus,	14:10
	the forgiving and loving Christ.	14:13
	Amen.	14:17
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-	Let us hear the word of God,	21:05
	as it is contained first	21:07
	in the scriptures of the Old Testament.	21:08
	In the book of the Psalms,	21:12
	selected verses from the 139 Psalm,	21:15
	O Lord thou has searched me and known me.	21:23
	Now know'st when I sit down and when I rise up.	21:28
	Thou dicern'st my thoughts from afar.	21:33
	Now searches out my path and my lying down	21:37
	and art acquainted with all my ways.	21:42
	Even before a word is on my tongue,	21:46
	lo, O Lord, thou know'st it altogether.	21:52
	Thou has beset me behind and before,	21:59
	and lay'st thine hand upon me,	22:02
	Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.	22:06
	It is high.	22:12
	I can entertain it.	22:14
	Whither shall I go from thy spirit?	22:17
	Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?	22:22
	If I ascend to heaven, thou art there.	22:26
	If I make my bed in hell, thou art there.	22:33
	If I take the wings of the morning	22:39
	and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;	22:42
	Even there, thy hand shall lead me,	22:46
	and thy right hand shall hold me.	22:50
	If I say, let only darkness cover me	22:56
	and the light about me be night.	23:00
	Even the darkness is not dark to thee,	23:05
	The night is as bright as the day,	23:10
	for darkness is as light with thee.	23:15
	Search me, O God, and know my heart.	23:21
	Try me and know my thoughts	23:25
	and see if there'd be any wicked way in me	23:29
	and lead me in the way everlasting.	23:34
	Here end'th the Old Testament lesson.	23:41
	The New Testament lesson is from the Gospel,	23:46
	according to St. Matthew,	23:49
	the 17th chapter verses 1 to 18.	23:52
	After six days, Jesus took with him,	24:00
	Peter, James and John his brother,	24:03
	and led them up a high mountain apart.	24:09
	And he was transfigured before them	24:13
	and his face shone like the sun	24:16
	and his garments became quite as light.	24:20
	And behold that appeared to them,	24:27
	Moses and Elijah talking with them.	24:29
	And Peter said to Jesus,	24:34
	"Lord, it is well that we are here.	24:36
	If you wish I will make three booths here,	24:40
	one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."	24:45
	he was still speaking	24:52
	when low a bright cloud overshadowed them	24:53
	and a voice from the cloud said,	24:57
	"This is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased.	25:00
	Listen to him."	25:08
	When the disciples heard this,	25:11
	they fell on their faces and were filled with awe.	25:13
	But Jesus came and touched them saying,	25:17
	"Rise and have no fear".	25:20
	And when they lifted up their eyes,	25:23
	they saw no one, but Jesus only.	25:27
	And as they were coming down the mountain,	25:31
	Jesus commanded them.	25:34
	"Tell no one, the vision until the Son of Man	25:35
	is raised from the dead.	25:41
	And the disciples asked him,	25:45
	"Then why do the scribe say that first Elijah must come".	25:47
	He replied, "Elijah does come.	25:56
	And he has to restore all things.	26:00
	I tell you that Elijah has already come	26:03
	and they did not know him,	26:07
	but did to him, whatever they pleased.	26:11
	So also the Son of Man will suffer at their hands".	26:16
	Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them,	26:23
	of John the Baptist.	26:27
	And when they came to the crowd,	26:31
	a man came up to him and kneeling before him said,	26:32
	"Lord have mercy on my son, but he is an epileptic.	26:36
	And he suffers terribly.	26:42
	For often, he falls into the fire and often into the water.	26:46
	And I brought him to your disciples.	26:51
	And they could not heal him.	26:54
	And Jesus answered, "O, faithless and perverse general.	26:59
	How long am I to be with you?	27:05
	How long am I to bear with you?	27:09
	Bring him here to me".	27:13
	And Jesus rebuked him.	27:17
	And the demon came out of him	27:19
	and the boy was cured instantly.	27:23
	Amen.	27:30
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	Let us in unison, affirm our faith.	28:19
	We are not alone.	28:24
	We live in God's world.	28:26
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	28:29
	who has come in the truly groom in Jesus.	28:35
	To reconcile and make new.	28:38
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	28:42
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	28:46
	to set celebrate life and its fullness,	28:51
	to love and serve others,	28:54
	to seek justice and resist evil,	28:57
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	29:00
	our judge and our hope,	29:05
	in life in death, in life beyond death,	29:08
	God is with us.	29:13
	We are not alone.	29:15
	Thanks be to God.	29:18
	The Lord be with you.	29:21
	Let us pray.	29:26
	Let our first be one of Thanksgiving.	29:35
	Blessed and eternal God from whom we come,	29:39
	by whom we are sustained and to whom we shall return.	29:44
	We thank thee for the good things bequeathed to us,	29:50
	by the journeying generations.	29:55
	Others labored,	29:59
	and we have end turned into the profits of their labor	30:01
	Churches, we did not build	30:05
	are centers for our worship and inspiration.	30:08
	Liberties, we did not earn are our birthright.	30:14
	Truths, we did not discover	30:20
	are a lamp to our feet and a light upon our path.	30:22
	As we have freely received, so may we freely serve.	30:29
	Make us wise in the arts of stewardship.	30:36
	Grant that we may so live and work	30:40
	that those who come after us shall rejoice,	30:43
	that we pass this way.	30:49
	But our second prayer be one of intercession for others.	30:53
	We bring before thee, O God,	31:00
	the troubles and perils of peoples and nations.	31:02
	The sign of prisoners and captives and refugees.	31:06
	The sorrows of the bereaved,	31:15
	the necessities of strangers,	31:17
	the helplessness of the weak,	31:20
	the despondency of the weary.	31:22
	The failing powers of the aged.	31:26
	O God, even through folks like us.	31:31
	Draw near to them for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord.	31:37
	And third, let us offer a prayer of supplication	31:45
	that we may have a sense of joy.	31:48
	Grant to us O Lord, the royalty of inward happiness	31:53
	and the serenity which comes from living close thee.	31:59
	Daily renew us in the sense of joy	32:06
	and let thy eternal spirit dwell in our souls and bodies,	32:09
	filling us with light and grace.	32:15
	So that bearing about with us	32:20
	the infection of a good courage.	32:22
	We may be diffusers of life	32:26
	and may meet all ills and cross accidents	32:28
	with a gallon and high hearted happiness.	32:34
	Giving thee thanks always for all things.	32:38
	And now as our savior Christ has taught us.	32:44
	We humbly pray together saying,	32:48
	our father, who aren't in heaven,	32:51
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.	32:55
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	32:59
	Give us this day our daily bread	33:04
	and forgive us our trespass	33:07
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	33:09
	And lead us, not into temptation,	33:13
	but deliver us from evil.	33:16
	While thine is the king and the power and the glory forever.	33:20
	Amen.	33:25
	The Lord's supper will be celebrated	33:30
	at the close of this service	33:32
	and everyone present is invited.	33:35
	Do not come because you must,	33:39
	come because you may.	33:43
	And the preacher this morning	33:48
	is our own Robert Young, the Minister to the University.	33:50
-	Some of you in the midst of reading and writing this week	34:09
	may have missed yesterday's Funky winkerbean cartoon.	34:13
	Funky is sitting, studying, he says,	34:21
	"You know, when you think about it,	34:23
	there are are a lot of questions in life	34:27
	that I really don't know the answer to.	34:31
	And the last picture says,	34:36
	it's just too bad that so many of them happen	34:37
	to turn up on this test.	34:39
	(audience laughs)	34:42
	Well, if it's been that kind of week for you,	34:45
	blessings on you this morning.	34:47
	If some of the days during the coming week	34:51
	promised to be that kind of experience for you,	34:54
	blessings on you, even more.	34:57
	In the name of God who creates us,	35:03
	redeems us and sustains us.	35:05
	Amen.	35:10
	When it comes to our Christian faith,	35:13
	that is how we believe it,	35:15
	how we live it,	35:17
	how we act it out.	35:18
	We often move in either one of two	35:20
	often diametrically opposed directions.	35:24
	Either we become quote spiritual.	35:28
	That is, we become preoccupied with prayer	35:31
	and Bible reading and meditation	35:33
	to the neglect of the social.	35:36
	Or else we become activist or political or issue oriented	35:38
	to the exclusion of the biblical and the spiritual.	35:43
	One of these, stresses the inward journey	35:47
	of the spiritual life.	35:50
	The other stresses,	35:52
	the outward journey of caring for others.	35:53
	But our call is to pursue them both,	35:56
	neither to the exclusion of the other,	35:58
	but both of them simultaneously.	36:01
	For there is always something more,	36:03
	something new, something different	36:06
	that you can discover about yourself	36:08
	on an endless journey inward.	36:11
	There is always also someone who needs you reach them,	36:14
	touch them, heal them, help them,	36:19
	on the journey outward.	36:23
	Jesus life put these two together in a rich way	36:26
	worthy of our study and worthy of our following.	36:31
	The journey inward toward the self,	36:36
	the journey outward toward others.	36:39
	Each endless each limitless, each boundless,	36:43
	each full of surprises,	36:48
	each full of risk and danger and full of the unknown.	36:50
	Each full of potential fulfillment	36:55
	and even moments of ecstasy.	36:57
	Henry Allen writes in out of solitude,	37:01
	'Expectation itself is what brings new joy to our lives.	37:03
	Expectation that is both on the inward journey	37:10
	and the outward journey brings joy to our lives.'	37:13
	We can see these journeys though as dull or monotonous,	37:18
	ordinary, routine, blize, pohum or humdrum.	37:23
	Or we can see them as if there are moments of	37:28
	potential, goodness, ready to explode	37:32
	around us, behind us, beside us or within us	37:34
	at any moment of time.	37:38
	But listen, if you will,	37:40
	to this rather severe indictment of contemporary living.	37:42
	The Chicago Suburban Junior Executive said	37:47
	of his and his wife's relationships with others	37:50
	in their neighborhood.	37:53
	He said, "Our relationships never were very exciting,	37:55
	but after all,	37:59
	no one expected them to be more than just ordinary".	38:00
	Well, my friends, if you don't expect life to be	38:07
	anything more than just ordinary,	38:09
	then that's precisely what it will be.	38:11
	As we come to the close of this academic year,	38:15
	1975-76 in the life of our university,	38:19
	I want to reaffirm the central importance	38:23
	of the journey inward and the journey outward	38:25
	for you and for me.	38:28
	And these journeys need not be just ordinary,	38:30
	after all Jesus referred to early disciples, how?	38:33
	As Lemon, as salt, as new wine,	38:37
	as light, as a candle on a bushel.	38:41
	There is to be air of excitement and exuberance	38:46
	and enthusiasm and contagious joy	38:49
	in the life of a Christian man or woman	38:52
	that makes life much more than just ordinary.	38:55
	The inward journey then for a moment or two,	39:01
	a pilgrimage toward understanding one's cell.	39:04
	Meister Eckhart wrote centuries ago,	39:08
	'To get at the core of God at his greatest,	39:10
	one must get an to the core of himself at his least,	39:14
	or no one can know God who has not first known himself,	39:19
	go to the depths of the soul,	39:23
	the secret place of the most high	39:26
	to the roots to the heights,	39:29
	for all that God can do is focus there'.	39:31
	Meaning of self, of life, of God, of others,	39:36
	all that God can do is focus right there	39:40
	in the depths of your soul.	39:43
	In the innermost parts of your being and my being.	39:46
	But we need time and space for this inward journey.	39:50
	And that unfortunately is part of our problem for today.	39:55
	For we do not allow or make time and space	40:00
	for a journey inward.	40:05
	For life is too busy, too full, too hectic,	40:06
	too frantic, too active, too noisy, too demanding,	40:10
	too much in motion for us to have time and space	40:12
	for this inward journey,	40:16
	which is so rich and full of potential.	40:18
	Robert Rains in his little book entitled, Creative Brooding.	40:21
	Says that, 'One of the problems for us in our society today	40:24
	is that there is nowhere to go to brood	40:27
	or to think creatively.	40:31
	Everywhere you go, he says,	40:33
	and you can listen to this and imagine what he's describing.	40:35
	He says, "Everywhere you go, there is noise.	40:38
	You go to the supermarket,	40:41
	you ride the elevator, you sit in the dentist chair,	40:42
	you ride a taxi or you walk the streets.	40:44
	There is music, noise.	40:47
	There is no silence.	40:48
	There is no time or space for the inward journey.	40:51
	And we need time and space.	40:54
	Quiet and free to time for brooding and meditating,	40:57
	for reflecting, for praying, for growing.	41:01
	Each of us needs a rest, a break,	41:04
	a change of pace, some time apart, a quiet time.	41:07
	A time to think and reason and grow and change.	41:14
	A time to grow and a time to change.'	41:19
	That's what this inward journey really is.	41:25
	I used to think that the inward spiritual journey	41:28
	upon which I was traveling and which others	41:32
	also were traveling,	41:36
	was a journey that would end.	41:38
	As I was growing up, somehow or other,	41:43
	I received the message that,	41:46
	you would really get to the point	41:48
	where the Christian faith was clear and understandable,	41:51
	where you would have all of the answers	41:56
	and everything you needed to know about the faith	41:59
	would be known.	42:01
	I heard and even remember today, such phrases,	42:05
	if you only believe or get your heart right with God	42:08
	or commit your life to Christ	42:12
	or recommit your life to Christ.	42:14
	I'm not sure as I try to recall this exactly	42:17
	what the words were that were used	42:20
	as these messages were communicated,	42:22
	but I understood others to be telling me	42:24
	that there would come a point in my life,	42:27
	if I believed enough and if I were faithful enough,	42:29
	when my spirit would grow calm,	42:32
	and I would not worry or struggle or search	42:34
	about matters of faith any longer.	42:36
	I would have arrived.	42:39
	I thought that once, I no longer believe that.	42:43
	I believe that the life of the spirit	42:49
	involves us in an endless journey,	42:51
	a pilgrimage, a journey inward, if you please.	42:53
	And that we will never, never have all of the answers	42:56
	nor will matters of faith ever be settled	42:59
	fully and finally for us.	43:01
	Now, I always knew that there would be	43:06
	an endless journey for the mind.	43:08
	Maybe it's because I understood how limited my mind was,	43:10
	but I always knew that there would be	43:13
	an endless journey for the mind,	43:16
	that one could never know all that there was to be known.	43:18
	Now, while on earth,	43:22
	I ever believe that one would ever be able to understand	43:24
	all that there is to believe.	43:27
	I really don't know, but I did.	43:29
	I now know, that the mysteries of God and Christ	43:34
	and life and faith will never be comprehended	43:38
	fully this side of eternity.	43:43
	Surely Paul was right when he said,	43:45
	"Now we do see through a glass darkly".	43:46
	We do not understand all or believe all or know all.	43:52
	The life of the mind and the spirit	43:59
	is one of continuous search and struggle.	44:01
	And that used to bother me,	44:03
	because I still had this childhood or teenage hangover	44:05
	that said, you know,	44:09
	there must be something wrong with you	44:11
	if you're still doubting and still questioning,	44:12
	until I heard Dr. Bryant Kirkland,	44:15
	who's Minister of Fifth Avenue Church in New York city.	44:18
	Gave a series of lectures one time,	44:22
	at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond.	44:24
	And I heard those lectures five or six of them there were	44:27
	during the course of a week when I was there.	44:30
	And then about three years later,	44:32
	I heard Dr. Kirkland again.	44:34
	And they sounded to me very much like the same lectures	44:36
	and yet they weren't the same.	44:40
	And so I went up to Bryant after the service,	44:41
	after the hearing the lectures for the second time.	44:43
	And I said, Bryant, you know,	44:47
	those lectures sound very, very familiar.	44:49
	They sound almost as if they were the same lectures	44:51
	I heard you give three years ago.	44:54
	And yet in substance, they are quite different	44:55
	at very, very important points. I said, they sound the same	44:58
	and yet they don't sound the same.	45:01
	He said, "They're not the same	45:03
	because my faith is not the same.	45:04
	For you see, I have had a daughter who has gotten married.	45:07
	I have stood beside of beds of those in our church	45:12
	who have died.	45:16
	I have baptized babies.	45:17
	I have conducted weddings for young couples.	45:19
	I have worked through the hell of divorce	45:22
	with many other couples.	45:25
	In other words,	45:28
	life has been a series of changing experiences for me.	45:29
	And so has my faith.	45:31
	They're not the same".	45:33
	And so, faith is a constantly moving,	45:35
	changing, growing, searching, struggling experience.	45:40
	Somewhat like, the late Dr. Samuel H. Miller,	45:44
	former Dean of Harvard School of Divinity says	45:46
	in one of his books, "Believing means that one must stand	45:50
	at the edge of uncertainty.	45:53
	One must stand at the edge of uncertainty	45:56
	where the dark dims the sureness of sight,	45:59
	and one must find a solid stone for as forward step".	46:03
	It means that one must do more than add things together	46:08
	in some sort of precarious pile,	46:11
	but one must find a way	46:14
	to fit the experiences of life together.	46:16
	And so, we keep searching for that solid stone,	46:20
	wanting to do more than add things in life	46:25
	together in a precarious pile.	46:28
	Wanting to find a way somehow or other to fit them together.	46:31
	Journey inward, journey outward.	46:36
	We see this epitomized magnificently in the life	46:40
	ad ministry of Jesus, our Lord.	46:45
	Jesus life was one where prayer and meditation,	46:48
	where the inward journey	46:51
	was a very important, a major part of his life.	46:52
	Often Jesus withdrew from his disciples,	46:57
	from the hustle and bustle in which he was engaged.	47:00
	He withdrew for prayer and meditation.	47:01
	There times the scriptures tell us	47:04
	when Jesus prayed all night.	47:07
	He often prayed, perhaps always prayed	47:09
	before important decisions and before difficult experiences.	47:12
	That's only a half the story.	47:15
	Charles Wesley in one of his prayers	47:19
	once remarked about Jesus.	47:20
	He said, "All I life Christ was prayer and love".	47:22
	That's a pretty accurate description	47:27
	of the life of our Lord, isn't it?	47:30
	A life of prayer and love.	47:32
	A journey inward and a journey outward.	47:35
	There is a constant important and essential connection	47:40
	between these two, the inward in the outward.	47:47
	Or if one gets preoccupied with just the inward	47:50
	or personal or spiritual journey,	47:53
	one tends to develop spiritual neurosis.	47:55
	But if one is always on the outward journey toward others,	48:00
	one tends to find one self in the world with nothing to say	48:03
	and no help to offer.	48:07
	That's why we need to maintain	48:09
	a healthy relationship between the two.	48:10
	Between the inward and the outward.	48:13
	Between the contemplative and the active.	48:16
	Between the meditative and the assertive.	48:19
	Between the silent and the spoken.	48:21
	Between the thinking and the doing.	48:22
	Between the feeling and the active.	48:25
	Nowhere that I know of,	48:29
	is this healthy, important, essential balance,	48:30
	seen more powerfully and more poignantly.	48:34
	Then in the Matthew passage,	48:39
	which Dean Clengan read	48:39
	as our Gospel lesson for this morning.	48:41
	Chapter 17, versus 1 through 18,	48:44
	the story of Jesus on the Mount of transfiguration.	48:48
	As was often Jesus custom, according to the gospels,	48:55
	he took his three favorite disciples,	48:59
	Peter, James and John.	49:02
	And he went up on the mountain,	49:03
	both figuratively and literally,	49:06
	symbolically and practically	49:08
	went apart on an inward-upward journey.	49:10
	This surely has to be	49:15
	one of the most dramatic encounters with God	49:19
	that any human beings have ever had,	49:22
	probably likened only to Moses experience on Mount Sinai,	49:25
	when the 10 commandments were delivered to him.	49:30
	Momentous, powerful, awesome.	49:34
	When the numinous presence of almighty God	49:35
	was visible and powerfully real	49:39
	and quite present to all who were there.	49:42
	This was such a magnificent and majestic spiritual moment.	49:49
	That according to Matthew's Gospel,	49:55
	Jesus became transfigured,	49:58
	his face shown as the son	50:02
	and his clothing was as white as the light.	50:04
	And then on top of that,	50:11
	the whole, immediately Moses and Elijah appeared with him.	50:12
	All of the history and the tradition of Jesus	50:18
	were symbolically represented here in Moses, the law.	50:20
	And in Elijah, representing the prophets.	50:26
	What a magnificent, powerful, rich, full, incomparable	50:31
	religious experience for a human being,	50:36
	even a divine human being to experience.	50:39
	And Dear old Peter, blustering impetuous Peter,	50:44
	one who always had good intentions,	50:48
	but often said some of the most inappropriate things,	50:50
	came up to Jesus and he said,	50:55
	"Jesus, this has been such a glorious experience.	50:57
	Let's just stay here forever.	50:59
	Let's build three Tabernacles.	51:01
	Let's build three monuments here	51:03
	and let's stay here and let's worship God,	51:05
	your father, our father, our Lord.	51:06
	Let's worship God here forever".	51:08
	Peter really didn't know what he was saying,	51:12
	but Jesus would have none of this.	51:16
	And so, the next few verses tell the rest of the story,	51:17
	the outward journey.	51:22
	And Matthew says, as they were coming down the mountain,	51:23
	when they came to a crowd, a man came up to him and said,	51:26
	"Lord, have mercy on me for my son is an epileptic".	51:29
	And then Matthew says, and Jesus answered him.	51:34
	And the boy was cured instantly.	51:36
	This my beloved sisters and brothers in Christ	51:44
	is the full journey.	51:51
	The journey inward to the mountain, surely.	51:55
	The journey outward to others, certainly.	51:59
	It's an endless circle,	52:05
	inward to outward, outward to inward.	52:08
	In reality, the two journeys are one.	52:11
	One absorbed in the other,	52:16
	one superimposed on the other.	52:18
	Martin Buber in his incomparable little writing,	52:22
	'I and Thou' writes,	52:27
	real self-knowledge leads a person	52:30
	either to self destruction or to rebirth.	52:34
	This is the inward journey,	52:42
	towards self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-assurance,	52:44
	which means rebirth, which means continuous new life	52:48
	for oneself and for others.	52:53
	Ellie Wizzel in his book Knight writes.	52:56
	We do not know the worth	53:02
	of one single drop of blood, one single tear.	53:05
	Inward-outward.	53:12
	Colin Morris says, "That today Christians	53:16
	are being called upon to feel more deeply	53:19
	and to absorb more punishment".	53:26
	Inward-outward.	53:30
	Langston Hughes, several decades ago wrote,	53:34
	what happens to a dream deferred?	53:39
	Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?	53:41
	Or fester like a sore and then run?	53:45
	Does it stink like rotten meat or crust	53:49
	or sugar over, like syrupy sweet?	53:52
	Maybe, it just sags like a heavy load	53:56
	or does that dream explode?	53:59
	Inward-outward.	54:05
	Dag Hammarskjold in his book Markings says,	54:11
	"Life demands from you only the strength which you possess.	54:17
	The only thing demanded of you is that you not run away".	54:25
	My friends, the only thing that anyone can ask of you or me,	54:34
	whether it's God, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend,	54:39
	husband to be, wife to be, classmate, roommate, suite mate,	54:42
	teacher, mother, father, sister, brother, whomever it is.	54:47
	The only thing that anyone can ask of you or me	54:51
	is simply the strength that you possess.	54:54
	The only thing ask of us in life is that we not run away.	54:56
	Run inward, run outward, but don't run away.	55:01
	Journey inward, journey outward.	55:07
	Yes, but don't run away.	55:11
	Jesus led them up to a high mountain apart,	55:15
	then as they were coming down the mountain,	55:18
	a man came up to him whose son was a leper,	55:21
	journey inward my friend, and be with the Lord.	55:25
	Journey outward, my friend and the Lord be with you.	55:30
	But blessed journey, blessed Journey to you.	55:35
	From now to the end.	55:40
	Amen, amen.	55:45
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	(church music ends)	1:07:52
-	O Lord, from whom we receive all	1:07:58
	and upon whom we are ever dependent.	1:08:03
	Accept this offering of ourselves to you.	1:08:07
	For the service of all persons.	1:08:13
	Use we pray our being and our doing,	1:08:17
	our gifts and our lives and all of our journeying	1:08:23
	for your glory and the wellbeing of ourselves	1:08:31
	and all of your creation.	1:08:35
	We pray in the spirit of Christ.	1:08:38
	Amen.	1:08:41
	(church music)	1:08:46
	(church music continues)	1:09:40
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	(church music continues)	1:12:09
	(church music ends)	1:12:51
	The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God	1:13:20
	and the communion and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.	1:13:28
	Be with us now and forever.	1:13:33
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Robert T. Young - "Journey Inward, Journey Outward" (May 2, 1976)

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May 2, 1976

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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