Like a Crane, Like a Dove Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah 38:14 in Neville's approach reads as the inner conversation of the self pressed by circumstance and petitioning the I AM for relief. The crane, swallow, and dove are not birds to be rescued; they are allegories for your restless mental chatter and a heart that seeks lift from a higher awareness. When you say, 'mine eyes fail with looking upward,' you are not petitioning a distant deity; you are witnessing your own attention narrowing to the problem. In Neville's practice, you revise the scene by shifting from pleading to assuming the feeling of the fulfilled state. Move from 'O LORD, undertake for me' to the silent, confident declaration: I AM here; I, the I AM, undertake for myself. Ground your feeling in the present tense: you are already in the state of deliverance, nourished by the awareness that imagination creates reality. The oppressed state is a misperception of identity; shift your inner image until the outward appearances align with a healed, uplifted mind. As you dwell in that assumption, the inner bird of thought quiets; the outer world follows the inner, not the other way around.