Joyful Rescue of the Found Sheep

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the scene as a drama inside your own consciousness. The lost sheep is any part of you that wandered from the sense of wholeness: fear, doubt, unfulfilled desire, or a neglected impulse. When you affirm its return, the 'finding' happens not in the world outside but within the state of awareness you call I AM. The moment of placing the sheep on the shoulders is a shift in fortune from separation to embrace: you are no longer dragging; you are bearing with ease what you recognize as already yours by inner decree. The shepherd's joy is your joy when you accept that the regained presence is your own inner reality, a consciousness that carries you back to wholeness. Thus, the feeling of being carried becomes the feeling of being saved; the joy is not a condition added from without but a natural expression of your awareness claiming what it always knew. Practice with your own imagined return, and you will see the outward sign follow from the inner state.