Inner Birth Pangs Transformed

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, Hosea's cry is not about a historical figure but about the state of your own consciousness. The travail of a woman marks the birth-pangs of a new self arising within you. The 'unwise son' speaks as the old self clinging to limited actions and external measures, lingering in the 'place of breaking forth of children'—the moment when something new should proceed but is stalled by fear or habit. Yet God says, I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. This is simply the unmistakable law of your inner I AM: no belief, no circumstance, can finally bind your real being, for you are the one aware presence that can convert the energy of fear into life. 'Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes' indicates that the divine turning is not a public reform but a private alignment of your attention with the truth of your being. The plague and destruction of death are the old identification dissolving as you insist on the truth of I AM here and now. When you realize you are the Redeemer, the heat of birth-pangs becomes the sweet labor of a new state of consciousness.