Olive Leaves of Inner Provision

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the olive harvest as a symbol of your inner supply. When you finish beating the tree and do not go over the boughs again, you are teaching your awareness that fullness is not exhausted by effort. The leftovers belong to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, but these figures are not distant persons; they are forms of consciousness within you: the stranger is the unknown potential awaiting you, the fatherless is your sense of lack that invites you into faith, the widow is your vulnerability that invites mercy. By leaving these remnants to their rightful recipients in your imagination, you release them into your world as agents of mercy, and you discover that you are the giver and the giving itself. As you dwell in the I AM—awareness that supplies all—your assumption, once steadfast, reshapes what you experience. The act is an inner act of revision: you are already abundant, therefore you can liberate the olive’s energy to bless every part of you and every part of your life. The more you imagine generosity, the more you realize there is no interruption in your supply.