Inner Renewal in Lamentations 2:21

Neville's Inner Vision

From the vantage of I AM, the streets are inner corridors of mind; the fallen are beliefs and identifications that no longer serve life. When you read 'my virgins and my young men,' hear not punishment but the stripping away of a former self—an old story of scarcity, fear, or separation that has died in the heat of anger you imagine within. In Neville's method, the painful scene is not punishment in history but a signal that you have believed in a lack of mercy within you. The 'day of thine anger' becomes the tense moment when you resist a fresh realization of your unity with life. To heal, you do not plead for the outside to change; you shift consciousness by assuming a new state: I am the I AM, merciful, alive, and unthreatened. As you revise the inner scene—seeing yourself as whole, the sword of judgment dissolved by compassion—the outer world reorganizes to reflect that inner order. The death of old self-concepts is followed by the birth of a renewed sense of being, where nothing is slain in you, only transformed.