Watering Your Inner Garden

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 1:29-30 invites the reader to notice that when you cling to the symbols and landscapes of the world—oaks you have desired, gardens you have chosen—you separate from the living source within. In Neville's sense, these oaks and gardens are not trees or plots, but fixed images in your mind, representing beliefs or identities you worship as if they were external powers. They dry up because life flows where attention is fertile. The leaf that fadeth is your sense of self built on conditions, status, or possessions; the garden without water is your consciousness starved of the Spirit. To reinterpret, you do not abandon reality; you awaken to the fact that God is the I AM within, the water of life that waters every garden. As you shift your awareness from outward forms to the one aware presence, the former dissolve, and you feel vitality return. This is not negation but revision: you replace the need for oaks and gardens with the living certainty of being.