Mercy Over Sabbath Rules

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Sabbath as the stillness of my own consciousness, not a calendar. The donkey in the pit is a belief in lack within me, a part fallen into limitation by fear. When Jesus asks which of you would pull it out, he invites me to recognize that, in the I AM, mercy operates beyond rules. The moment I acknowledge the impulse to rescue, I am not rejecting law; I am aligning with the law of life that makes all beings whole. The 'could not answer' of the scribes reveals that a mind trapped in rigid observance cannot act with true compassion; my act of pulling out is an inner decision to revise the situation in consciousness, to declare that no pit of mistaken limitation is final. The rescue then becomes a revival of consciousness, a return to the truth that I am the I AM, capable of restoring any seeming fracture. I practice this now: assume I am the merciful presence, and let the pit dissolve in awareness.