Hidden Prayer of Hannah

Neville's Inner Vision

Your life is a constant field of consciousness, and Hannah's bitterness is not a flaw but a signal that desire has awakened. She stands before the temple of the LORD within, pouring out a cry to the I AM that you are. When she says, remember me and give unto thine handmaid a man child, she is not asking God to change the world outside but to shift the inner state that fashions the world. The vow she makes is a decision of the will in imagination: if a child of promise is given, she will devote him to the LORD all the days of his life. This is not a binding rule imposed on God, but a covenant she establishes within consciousness, aligning her feeling and idea with a future fulfilled. The hair rite, a razor not coming upon his head, is the form she chooses to keep the image untainted by the ego; it represents the discipline and purity of the form through which the inner work is preserved. As you practice, you become the mother of your own fulfilled state, and the future manifests as you hold the image steady in awareness.