Wings to Rest: An Inner Flight

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the cry is not for literal wings but for a shift of consciousness. The dove’s flight is your inner feeling of rest, a mood you can enter now, because God is not out there moving in storms but the I AM, your own awareness, expressing as peace. When the psalmist says, I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest, he disowns the circumstance by turning toward the inner refuge. The wind and tempest become the theatre of mind in which you awaken to the fact that you already possess the shelter you seek. Your desire for escape is an invitation to identify with a higher state—one where you are already at rest and untouched by disturbance. The moment you assume this rest, imagination becomes law to your experience; the external is a manifestation of your inner state. Selah marks a pause for you to dwell in the quiet I AM that you are. The grace of deliverance is a discipline of inward attention, not a change of place.