Poured Out Before the LORD

Neville's Inner Vision

Hannah’s words reveal a state of consciousness wrestling with grief. She does not plead to an external judge but pours out the content of her inner weather before the LORD—the inner awareness that sees and hears all. In Neville’s reading, the LORD is the I AM within, the unwavering witness that does not condemn but receives. By naming her sorrow—‘a sorrowful spirit’—she shifts from identification with lack to a return of attention to the self that remains unchanged by circumstance. The 'abundance of my complaint and grief' becomes material for awareness to absorb and dissolve; in that act of pouring out, the mind makes room for a new register of being. The moment the listener inside perceives she is not a defective vessel (not a daughter of Belial) but a child of the living I AM, energy reorients and refreshes. The suffering is not denied; it is offered to the I AM as raw matter that, by intention, metabolizes into trust and expectancy. Thus the scene becomes a practical guide to inner petition: release fear, fix attention on consciousness, and watch how awareness returns a new sense of life.