Inner Regathering and Homecoming

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Hosea’s line I hear the I AM addressing my own consciousness: exile and fear are not external verdicts but states that tremble until they awaken. The bird out of Egypt and the dove out of Assyria become symbols of inner movements—restlessness turning toward stillness, separation yielding to union. When I attend to this inward drama, the tremor loses its charge and becomes a rhythm of returning. God does not relocate me in geography; He locates me in a stable house of awareness, the inner domicile where attention can abide. The I AM promises to place the scattered parts of self in their rightful rooms; not by force, but by an act of consciousness that is already accomplished in imagination. Therefore, I do not wait for exilic conditions to change; I imagine the ground of my being as a fixed address, and by the power of belief it becomes my present home. The outer exiles dissolve as I dwell in the interior country, and restoration manifests as a felt presence, a secure habitation that I am now.