Inner Sabbath of the Land

Neville's Inner Vision

Do not regard this exile as mere punishment; see it as the return of your inner state. The land represents your consciousness, and when your sabbaths were neglected, the soil of your mind lay fallow. In the desolate hour a patient quiet invites you to revise your fundamental assumption about life. The law Neville names the I AM shows that renewal begins the moment you adopt a new state of awareness, a state in which rest is not a day but a condition of being. You are the land; your present conditions reflect your inner calendar. If you insist the land remains barren, you prolong the desolation; if you choose to imagine the land kept in perpetual sabbath, you invite restoration here and now. Covenant loyalty simply means remaining faithful to that inner sabbath even when outward appearances scream otherwise. The return is not distant, but immediate, a new creation dawning in consciousness as you dwell in the I AM. By steady assumption, you withdraw the land from desolation and plant it in the abundance of a renewed mind.