Inner Exile at Arnon

Neville's Inner Vision

Exile, in Isaiah, is not a punishment but a moment of inner rearrangement. See the wandering bird as your consciousness displaced from its old nest of limitation by habit. The nest stands for familiar identities you no longer serve; the fords of Arnon mark a crossing you have told yourself must be waited for. But in Neville's sense, the event you fear is already imagined into being by your present I AM. The daughters of Moab become the particular feelings or memories that cling to you when you face a threshold. When you accept that the movement is inward—a shift in belief, a revision of what you hold as true—the exiled self returns to a new nest, a higher order of reality. The crossing at Arnon is your deliberate act of assumption: declare that you already inhabit the state you seek, feel it with the certainty of I AM, and let imagination do the work. As you linger in that feeling, the outward scene aligns with your inner conviction. The wandering ends in a home that is never truly lost.