When God Comes

God came to see Adam in the garden.  There was a familiarity that is absent from the burning bush where he visited Moses.  He came to sit with Abraham, and was a guest.  That is lost in the storms over Mout Zion.  He had less need of the noise, the formality and spectacle at some times and with some people.  For Elijah he was there in gentle breezes, not needing the violent winds that seemed to fit Pentecost.  It may not be so, but God seems more present when he comes in quiet.