Inner Feast of the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines are not about external conditions but about your inner state. The 'afflicted' are simply states of consciousness that insist on themselves as reality; the 'merry heart' is a awakened I AM that refuses to be ruled by circumstance. When you dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM, the days you once called evil dissolve into a continual feast of feeling. The fear of the LORD is not fear in terror but reverence—an alignment with the divine Presence within. To prefer little with that reverence over great treasure with trouble is to discover that wealth is the peace of mind that cannot be taken away. A dinner of herbs where love is is a symbolic meal of simple, shared generosity; when love governs your inner banquet, even modest meals glow with sufficiency, and hatred loses its bite. Try this: realize that the world you perceived as outer is the mirror of your inner state; revise now to identify with the I AM as your source and permit the feast to begin in imagination.