Touching the Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed inwardly, the scene is a map of your inner weather. The disciples symbolize habits of mind that shrink from innocence; Jesus embodies the I AM that remains undistracted by fear, ready to touch the open heart. When he says that the kingdom belongs to such, he is signaling that the state of awareness in which you accept and trust without calculation is the very atmosphere of God. The touch offered is not physical; it is the recognition and admission of the child within, the vulnerable, curious self that is unguarded toward grace. The kingdom is not a distant place but a present condition you can claim by withdrawing the barriers of judgment and fear. Your work is to revise the mind until you consent to be touched by wonder, until the word forbid becomes permit in your inner dialogue, until the little ones you cast out return as your own possibility and presence. In that moment, you dwell in the kingdom here and now, and God becomes your living awareness rather than a distant promise.