Converging Faith for Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Within these verses the ruler and the woman are two faces of one inner state, two movements of consciousness seeking life. The ruler’s declaration, 'My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her,' reveals a mind convinced that life can be summoned by external touch, by policy or deed. The woman’s twelve years of suffering and her inner resolve, 'If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole,' show a different mode: a decision in consciousness to lean on the very edge of awareness as the point of contact. When Jesus turns and acknowledges, 'Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole,' he confirms that healing is now, not in the future, the fruit of faith in the I AM. The hem of his garment is the symbol of the boundary where life is felt—your own border of awareness where you choose what you will experience. In truth, the healer and the healed are one I AM, the ever-present awareness that cannot fail to realize its own wholeness. The lesson is simple: realize you are the life that heals, and reality must conform to that living assurance.