Hearing the Inner Word

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Amos speaks of a famine, but not of bread or water. It is a famine of hearing the Word, a consciousness that feels far from the Lord. You wander from sea to sea, running to and fro for a sign, and you do not find it because you have not recognized the Word that is already present within you. In Neville’s light, the Word is your own I AM—your awareness imagining and perceiving. When you revise, you assume that the Word is within you now, and you feel it as real, both the hearing and the answer. The exile becomes a return of consciousness: endurance in the practice of assumption until the inner Word becomes vivid as your ordinary state. Judgment shifts to accountability: you are crafting your world by the way you attend to your inner speech. The promise is fulfilled not by waiting, but by awakening to the truth that the Word is within, always, awaiting your recognition.