God doesn’t always meet us with rushing winds and tongues of fire.
1 Kings 19:11-12 (MSG).
Then he [Elijah] was told, “Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by.”
A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn’t to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn’t in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn’t in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.
“A gentle whisper.” We can have long, quiet conversations with God. 
Read Elijah’s quiet conversation with God in 1 Kings 19:13-18
