Tears Transformed by Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, Psalm 80:5–6 exposes the interior weather of consciousness, not mere outdoor misfortune. The 'bread of tears' is the mental nourishment we have come to accept as real—beliefs of lack, separation, and a life at the mercy of chance. The 'tears to drink in great measure' signals a habitual, rhythmic dwelling in suffering, a state we repeatedly choose through attention. When the psalmist speaks of being a 'strife unto our neighbours' and enemies laughing, he describes the outer world as a mirror of an inner drama: a mind convinced of its own vulnerability will perceive ridicule and opposition wherever it looks. The remedy is radical interior reorientation: awaken to the fact that you are the I AM, the awareness that creates your world. By shifting identity from the experience of pain to the possessing presence of God within, you alter your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and the external scene correspondingly softens. The call is to revise, assume a new state, and feel the truth of repair already accomplished in consciousness.