Old Garment, New Cloth

Neville's Inner Vision

Mark 2:21 speaks not of sewing but of succession in consciousness. The old garment is your established sense of self, the worn story you tell about lack, limit, and law. The new cloth is the living awareness that you are the I AM, the unseen shirt that heals by cessation of struggle. When you attempt to patch the old state with a strip of new doctrine, you force the living garment to stretch and tear; you keep your attention on two incompatible states, and the rent grows larger in your experience. Instead, dwell in the space where the old self simply yields to the new imagined certainty. Do not patch; rebuild. The new covenant is not a modification of the old rule book but the awakening to unity with God within. Your imagination is the loom; your feeling is the thread; your assumption that 'I am that I am' woven into every scene creates the desired form. By refusing to mend the old, you allow the new to be born as the natural reality of your life.