The Inner Thanksgiving Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the sacrifice of thanksgiving not as a ritual apart from you, but as the decisive state you choose in your own mind. When you offer thanks 'at your own will,' you are choosing the state you will wear in every moment. Your God is not beyond you but your I AM awareness, the flame that recognizes what you are now. The rule that it must be eaten that day means the moment you take up gratitude, the old sense of lack is consumed; there are no leftovers to carry into tomorrow. The Lord is not distant judgment but the living, perceiving Self that offers and consumes itself in the act of praise. As you dwell in this state—breath steady, attention on the feeling of 'it is mine now'—you align your inner altar with your outer world. The offering is not an event to repeat but a reinvestment of attention into the present, where every desire is already fulfilled in consciousness. The more you insist on your own will and feel it real, the more you discover that you are the consuming fire revealing your truth.