Inner Mercy Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Your affliction is not a thing outside you, but a vivid state you have been imagining. Look upon it as a signal of where your consciousness has wandered. The words 'look upon mine affliction' invite you to become aware of the sensation and to meet it with the I AM that you are. When you declare forgiveness, you are not petitioning a distant God; you are re-identifying with the truth that God is the I AM within you, and your present feeling is the condition of your reality. To forgive 'all my sins' is to revise your self-image, to affirm that you are already loved and whole in this moment. The moment you accept forgiveness as a state you wear now, you transform the inner weather and the outer scenes must reflect that mercy. Practice with a simple act: imagine the I AM turning toward your inner pain with compassion, and in that gaze, forgive yourself as completely as you would a beloved child. The psalmist's plea becomes a declaration of your own inner property—the mercy already granted by your true self.