Gentle Nurture of the Soul

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the Thessalonian scene is your inner state made visible. The nurse is the tender I AM within you, the awareness that treats every impression as a child to be cherished. When Paul says we were gentle among you, he means your own consciousness can rest in a soft, attentive mood rather than in striving. Their affectionate desire to impart not only the gospel but their own souls is a revelation of how you must set your whole being into any encounter. You do not offer merely ideas; you offer the feeling of being one with the other, you offer your life as the currency of trust. In that act, separation dissolves and unity is born; you realize that the other and you are one state of consciousness, and what you give returns as your own inner peace. Practice: assume you are the nurse of your life, that you are willing to give your entire self in any communication; feel it real now, and observe how your surroundings respond.