Hem of Faith, Made Whole

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the scriptural scene, the woman is not merely touching a garment but touching her own dormant sense of I AM. Her twelve-year ailment represents a lodged state of consciousness, a belief that wholeness is distant or earned by effort. When she says, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole, she makes a decisive assumption, a revision of reality, and her attention anchors to the feeling of completion already present within. Jesus turning and addressing her as Daughter signals that the divine within recognizes and responds to the inward condition; be of good comfort is the reassurance that the state of healing is not forthcoming, but already present in the moment of conviction. The declaration that thy faith hath made thee whole is not a past event but an assertion of the creative power of faith in action. In Neville's terms, the event on the outside follows the inner alignment, the visible is the fruit of the inner harvest. The hem of the garment is the hem of consciousness where the boundary between lack and fullness dissolves.