Inner Pastures Of Abandoned Cities

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the prophet speaks of abandonment as a birth. Aroer is not a distant city, but a condition within you that has grown quiet and afraid. When you hear 'cities' as the states of consciousness you have left to themselves, you can revise them into a pasture—an inner field where your thoughts and feelings rest. The flock represents your repeated images, hopes, and desires awaiting rest in awareness. The shift from forsaken to blessed is an inner movement, a turning of attention from fear to that which you already are: I AM. By sustaining that I AM presence, you invite a new occupancy—the old city yielding to a plentiful pasture under your deeper acceptance. As your inner life is reinterpreted, the outer scene aligns with this state, and fear dissolves into safety, stillness, and a natural peace that knows no threat.