My impression is that, informed and animated by a thoughtful faith in a wider horizon, the veil quite properly funnels the bulk of our attention to the here and now; on the time, people, problems, and opportunities of this day, this moment.  Despite glimpses of eternal purposes that come as gifts and hopes, my life unfolds in tremendous, all-but-complete ignorance of our mysterious universe.  There is no proving God to others.  Ultimate reality is not something we know; it is something in which we put our trust...The veil is not a curse or cause for existential lament;.  It is necessary to our stage of progression as beings.  While we search, listen, and pray for comfort and direction beyond our sphere, the veil--the necessary epistemic distance from this "beyond"--affords us freedom for independent action not possible if we could literally and readily see God smiling or frowning at each move.  And freedom independently to discern and choose between good and evil (morality) and good and bad (quality) is at the core of our purpose, as the powerful mythos of God suggests.

-Philip Barlow

quoted in Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 47