Mercy Memory Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember not the sins of my youth is not asking God to alter a ledger but to shift the consciousness that claims the ledger. In Neville's language, your life is a state of awareness. The speaker asks for a new state by mercy and goodness, so that the self you wake up as in the morning is not the old self haunted by mistakes, but a fresh I AM, radiant with grace. When you entertain the feeling that you are presently kept in mercy, you are not denying consequence; you are reassigning identity. The memory of transgressions exists as a mental picture in your own mind; you dissolve it by assuming the end—that you are loved, supported, and supported by divine intention. The words 'thy mercy' and 'thy goodness' become your operating principles: mercy as the atmosphere you breathe, goodness as the standard by which your thoughts, words, and actions are judged. By turning attention from guilt to the awareness of I AM, you invite a new scene into being, where past acts lose their power to define your present or future.