Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on “God-Man relationship”. Man is not alone p.75 f - [emphasis mine]

GOD IS SUING FOR MAN

To knock timidly at distant gates of silence, inquiring whether there is a God somewhere, is not the way. We all have the power to discover in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, His waiting for man's heart to affiliate with His will [his will - the universe 'plan' - of which we are a part GCS].

It is a travail to perceive the unfolding of the divine in this world of strife and envy. Yet a force from beyond our conscience cries at man, reminding and admonishing that the wanton will fail in rebellion against the good. He who is willing to be an echo to that pleading voice opens his life to the comprehension of the unseen in the desert of indifference. It is God who sues for our devotion, constantly, persistently, who goes out to meet us as soon as we long to know Him.

What gives birth to religion [spirituality GCS] is not intellectual curiosity, but the fact and experience of our ‘being asked’. As long as we frame and ponder our own questions, we do not even know how to ask. We know too little to be able to inquire. Faith is not the product of search and endeavor, but the answer to a challenge which no one can forever ignore. It is ushered in not by a problem, but by an exclamation. Philosophy begins with man's question; religion begins with God's question and man's answer.

He who chooses a life of utmost striving for the utmost stake, the vital, matchless stake of God, feels at times as though the spirit of God rested upon his eyelids-close to his eyes and yet never seen. He who has realized that sun and stars and souls do not ramble in a vacuum will keep his heart in readiness for the hour when the world is entranced. For things are not mute: the stillness is full of demands, awaiting a soul to breathe in the mystery that all things exhale in their craving for communion. Out of the world comes a behest to instill into the air a rapturous song for God, to incarnate in stones a message of humble beauty, and to instill a prayer for goodness in the hearts of all men.

GCS I hear this as a reflection on the teaching of Jesus, the Jew, who mentions often the care of God in nature (flowers and birds, etc) and the constant care the Creator for his creation especially the humans made in his image, ‘which care’ we - as conscious human beings - can experience, if we are open for it.