Widows, Duty, and Inner Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

All scripture is a map of consciousness. To honor a widow is to honor the inner state that seems abandoned yet remains present to God. The widow indeed, desolate, who trusts in God and prays night and day, is the inner self that refuses despair and clings to the I AM. The warning that she who lives in pleasure is dead while she liveth speaks to the idle attitudes that drain life from awareness. When the text speaks of providing for one's own, it addresses your inner loyalties: attend to your own house—your thoughts, feelings, and daily habits—so that your consciousness is not separated from its divine resource. If you neglect this inner duty, you deny the faith in your own possibilities and the life that could be expressed. Therefore revise: see your interior world as abundant, and place your attention on the order of care as a creative act of imagination. In that internal provision, your outer life becomes blameless and faithfully manifested.