Calling Upon God

Me : You know, when it's quiet, still and I am alone by myself, our companionship simply flourishes and grows deeper without my apparent attention to work on it.  

I don’t need to do anything. I don’t even consciously look to feel your presence. I don't  call upon You.  

 

Voice : Hmm

Me : But, they say we must call upon God for you to respond..

Voice : When you breathe, do you ask for the air to be present ? 

Me : No 

Voice : Because you know it's always there. In the same way there is conviction beyond any doubt of My continual presence with you, which you feel and live with.   

One is expected to feel My presence to such an extent that I become your very breath. Would you call upon each inhalation ?  

Me : Then why are we told to call upon God when You are never separate from us ?  

Voice : In the beginning, as a child you called out to your mother for every little thing. You have grown up and do you continue with it now ?

Me : No. 

Voice : In the same way, in the beginning a lover calls upon Me so I can 'appear' in his life. But as this love ripens with his devotion, he begins to feel my continual presence and the calling turns into longing..a more profound spiritual state.     

Me : Hmm.

Voice : Calling upon God is good but if this begins to attenuate it may not necessary be a mark of disconnection but a progress for some. But, this is My Grace upon a few. 

Me : Wow 

Voice : A silent mind will find Divine connection and all words, wisdom and understanding will drown in this Silence.

When this Silence itself is My Divine presence, then what avail is any calling ?  

Me : Wow. You are my ever-present silent companion. 

Voice : God is not silent. Silence is God.