Adam Hankins
  • read my mind
  • Landscapes
  • portraits
  • Brainstorm
    • LAZARUS
    • The Fisherman
    • The Zealot
    • Henrietta Bloome
  • Contact
Picture

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

1/8/2020

0 Comments

 
“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.”

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    ADAM HANKINS

    "Mmmm...donuts." 

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Abyss
    Bible Verses
    Blindness
    Connection
    Contempt
    Ego
    Emptiness
    Faith
    Forgiveness
    Freedom
    Home
    Idols
    Jonah
    Letting Go
    Living Dead
    Love
    Miracle
    Oneness
    Purpose
    Rationalism
    Redemption
    Sacrifice
    Seeing
    Story
    Suffering
    The Cross
    The Enemy
    The Unknown
    The Wizard Of Oz
    To Die Is To Live
    Transformation
    Truth
    Value
    Waking Up
    Wanting
    When Everything You Do Is Wrong

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • read my mind
  • Landscapes
  • portraits
  • Brainstorm
    • LAZARUS
    • The Fisherman
    • The Zealot
    • Henrietta Bloome
  • Contact