Ravens by the Brook

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the narrative as a teaching in inner economy. The outward journey to Cherith mirrors a decision of consciousness: to obey the Word is to choose a state you are willing to inhabit. There, the brook becomes an inner stream of life-moving energy, constant and faithful, sustaining you as you attend to your vision. The ravens are not birds of chance but symbols of nature's readiness to deliver when your inner posture is trustful. Each morning and evening you are fed because you have chosen to dwell in the reality you desire; the bread and flesh represent ideas, solutions, and conditions that satisfy the desire, arriving in the cadence of the day. Drinking from the brook is drinking from the I AM—present, immediate, and personal. If you keep faith with the inner Word, you will find that external changes align with your inner state. Obedience to the inner decree and the steady feeling of sufficiency become your physics of life, and hunger dissolves into experience.