Inner Gathering of Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Pause with me and enter the scene as if you are the speaker and the hearer both. Jerusalem, in this proverb, is not a city on a map but a state of consciousness, a habit of thinking that kills the inner prophets and stonewalls guidance. The I AM within you notices this habit and calls it by name: you refuse the revelation that would gather your inner children under the warmth of awareness. Notice how the hen's wings represent the protective, embracing power of consciousness that can shelter every aspect of you—the tender impulses, the wounds, the seed of truth. When you say yes in imagination to the inward gathering, you are not denying conflict; you are selecting the posture from which conflict is seen and transformed. The moment you assume that gathering, you will feel the shift: the sense of separation dissolves, and mercy becomes your prevailing atmosphere. Your job is to keep imagining this act until it feels real in your bones, until life outside begins to FOLLOW the inner warmth you have assumed.