Rescue Into the Large Place

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the words describe a lift from the waters of fear and attack from without or within. In Neville's tongue, the 'He sent from above' is the ascent of awareness—your I AM—calling you out of the whirlpool of circumstance. You 'took me, he drew me out of many waters' when you shift identification from the tumult to the observer. The 'strong enemy' and those who hate me are merely stubborn mental states—doubt, limitation, old stories—that feel overpowering until you discover you are the power that commands them. They 'prevented me in the day of my calamity,' but the verse immediately names the true stay: the LORD is my stay—the constant consciousness that never leaves you. Then comes the 'large place'—a spacious, unconditioned field of being where limits soften and grace appears. The final clause, 'delighted in me,' is the inward smile of your own I AM toward your waking self. The practice is simple: treat every crisis as a misreading of your state of consciousness; assume the I AM as your shelter, and let yourself be drawn into the large place by feeling the delight of being perfectly known.