Does God Speak?

Have you ever found your self struggling to hear God? Have you ever found yourself in despair feeling all alone and wanting to trust in God and trying to, but its just to hard because you can't hear him? I have found myself in this state many times! I struggle from time to time trying to seek His guidance, but confuse myself with clouded thoughts of what I think is best or needed. It would be so much easier if God would just speak to me like my friends and family speak to me... or would it? God is amazing and He could very easily talk to us verbally, but He chooses to connect with us in a more intimate fashion. When Christ came to the earth he came as God in flesh. God verbally spoke to the people every day, but not everyone listened, trusted, or even cared about what He was saying. When we are forced to use our hearts to hear God, or to use our touch to experience God then it becomes more meaningful and affective than actually hearing God speak to us. If God spoke verbally then eventually it would not be anything special and we would more than likely not connect with Him very well. The experiences that we go through and hour long conversations with freinds and family, those are the special ways we overlook everyday of hearing God speak. God loves us so much; he wants us to work at hearing what He has to say because when God speaks He has something important to say! Listen with your heart, body, and soul to hear God speak!