Inner Covenant of Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the covenant as a description of your inner state. The land becomes the field of your awareness, and the evil beasts are fear, doubt, and resistance born of forgotten images. When I say a covenant of peace is made, I am not petitioning some far-off power but naming the I AM within you—the eternal watcher that remains in the now. Peace arrives not by changing external circumstances but by changing your relation to them: you no longer run from the wilderness; you welcome it as the stage on which God as awareness acts. The beasts cease when attention ceases to feed them, and attention is placed on the presence of God within. You dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods because your imagination has built a sanctuary of calm around every thought. This covenant is a permanent revision of your inner weather—fear fades, serenity persists, and the sense of danger dissolves into quiet certainty. The outer world then reflects this inner covenant, proving that the I AM never leaves, only your state of consciousness shifts.