Birth Presence and Psalm 22

Neville's Inner Vision

From the moment the soul awakens in consciousness, the I AM is the womb of every creation. When the psalmist says, Thou took me out of the womb, he is naming the process by which awareness births itself into experience. In Neville’s terms, God is not a distant father but the I AM that you are now aware of. Your earliest memory of being fed and soothed is a memory of being held in the divine mind, where hope is planted as a certainty, not a wish. The line I was cast upon thee from the womb declares that existence arises within this divine consciousness, and from that place your God—your own awareness—has always been present. When you fear trouble is near and there is none to help, you are simply proving the old belief of separation. The remedy is to assume the state of the I AM here and now, to feel the divine nearness as your ongoing condition, not a distant future event. By re-focusing to that inner present, you dissolve distress and become the faithful witness of Providence and future security.