Grace and Peace Within You

Neville's Inner Vision

Grace here is not a gift coming from without, but a quality of awareness that you already wear as the I AM. Peace is the settled mind that arises when you stop seeking from the world and acknowledge the Father within as your source. When you read, 'Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ,' hear it as an inner declaration to your own consciousness. The Father is the indwelling I AM, the living presence, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the Christ in you, your intimate contact with that Life. By dwelling in the assumption that you are graced and at peace, your inner movements align with that divine mood. Your prayers become echoes of your settled awareness, and the outward world mirrors this inward state as the natural expression of being. See grace as the steady sense that you are favored by your own awakened consciousness; see peace as the inside job of stillness that rests in you regardless of appearances.