Return to the Inner Shepherd

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember, you are not a body wandering through life; you are consciousness imagining a scene called life. The image of sheep astray reveals a mind caught in the belief of separation, fear, and lack. Yet the clause 'but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls' asserts a completed inner transaction: you have turned your mind back to its rightful ruler. The Shepherd is not a person outside you; He is the I AM, your constant awareness, guiding, correcting, and loving you from within. To reinterpret is to revise the script with inner assent, to feel the return as a lived fact of consciousness. When you dwell in the quiet authority of the Shepherd—by assuming that you are led by the I AM—the old beliefs loosen and dissolve. Grace is not a distant gift but your natural state of remembrance: you are always led home by the inner governor of your being. The shift occurs in awareness, and as you inhabit that awareness, your world aligns with it—you are no longer astray but at home in your soul.