Preserving the Stranger Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s language, the Lord is not a distant deity but the I AM in you, the steady awareness that can preserve the stranger within. The strangers are those unknown, unacknowledged parts of your consciousness seeking shelter in a new imagined state. The fatherless and widow are your felt deficiencies, loss, or need—things you once believed deprived of support. When you turn your attention to the I AM, you do not appeal for grace from above; you become the very act of preservation, relief, and provision. The wicked way is the habitual thought that conditions define you, that you are at the mercy of circumstance. But the moment you inhabit a higher state—I AM as your constant presence—the old conditions are turned upside down: lack becomes supply, fear becomes faith, separation becomes unity. This is the inner miracle: God’s justice is the alignment of your inner states with a single, all-sufficient consciousness. Practice by assuming and feeling: I AM the preserver of all within my heart, and I let relief flow to every vulnerable part I imagine.