Job’s discovery in the dirt and Solomon’s wish

“Help me to understand.”
There is nothing else. The path of the ego is the path to the lowest place. Ends there. But it is also where humility Begins—must begin.  Humility, if it is ever to be found,  is found in the abyss—where profound things always are. And then, down there in the dirt, an amazing thing happens: the eyes begin to lift.  The journey starts to climb upward. It is the place of “levavi oculos.”  It is elevation. It is the place of revealed truth, rather than argued truth.

What more do I need?

Jesus—the mode of being that redeems—is all the sign I need. All the miracle I need. Am I not amazed at this life? Do I see only my tiny years, or do I see the eternal moment of right now?  Do I simultaneously look one way and say, “My time on this earth is too short!” and look another and say, “I have plenty of time;” never able to live right now—the ONE AND ONLY place where life actually happens; refusing, rejecting, ignorant—waiting for some other time, some other life?  
Jesus says,”Do you want me to exceed your expectations? What do you expect?” 
Faith happens in the absence—on the other side; in the letting go—of my wants. My wants are marred by smallness; tarnished by fear; pushed and pulled by the external.  In their absence, ONLY by their removal, can I finally see the one who says, “Ask me anything? And as long as you do it my name—the name of redemption—in the name of that which exists outside of what you know—it is done.”
It’s like, “The unknown can either be trusted or feared.  I am asking you to trust.”