Repentance's Joyful Turn

Neville's Inner Vision

View the scene not as external emotion but as a shift in your inner weather. The Corinthians’ sorrow does not crush them; it corrects their state of consciousness, turning a mere feeling into a birth of a new alignment with the I AM. Godly sorrow is not guilt; it is the mystical turning of attention back to the presence that you are. When they sorrowed to repentance, they exercised the discipline of imagination, choosing to understand the higher order of life and to align their acts with divine law. In Neville’s terms, the person is a state of consciousness; to sorrow rightly is to revise the inner statement about oneself and others, so that no damage remains in the contact between Paul and them. The moment of repentance becomes a new seed of grace, a favorable wind within the mind that clears the air and restores harmony. You too can enact this: let the I AM feel the sorrow as a signal, then revise the scene into a healed relationship that already stands in the light.