Dust and Ashes Inner Repentance

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s statement is a soul-portrait of a turning point in consciousness. The self that abhors itself is the ego clinging to a fragile story; dust and ashes are the remnants of old imagery you still hold. Repentance, in Neville terms, is not punishment but a change of focus—the decision to redraw your inner map with the I AM as the steady reference. When you feel the urge to condemn yourself, you may soften into awareness that imagines a different self and a different outcome. The inner I AM—the constant awareness you truly are—revises the scene by refusing to identify with the old picture. Humility becomes a doorway, not a defeat; mercy arises as you stop resisting the truth of your creative power, and forgiveness follows as you release the old self you no longer identify with. Practice: imagine the ash-dust dissolving into light as you affirm I am the I AM.