-Lord, I need You. I need to feel close to You...to truly know You are in me and I am in You.

+ My love, you are completely unaware, as you go through your day, of the steady, constant breathing that sustains you from minute to minute. A good way to feel close to Me is to be more aware of this life-breath...breathed into you from your first moment of life and sustained for you continuously from that moment until now. Be conscious of your breathing and then think about Me. It's no accident that breathing gives you life. You pull in oxygen and it knows just what to do. It goes into your system...helps clear your blood of impurities and you breathe out those impurities to make room for more and more oxygen....more life.Your amazing Father designed this system* (and every other perfect system of your body). This gives you a tiny glimpse of His unmatched intelligence and love. You know, because I promised, that the Holy Spirit is in you...He is the gift of Life eternal...empowering you....filling you with Light and Wisdom....Guidance and Grace. Just as you are constantly replenished by the oxygen you mindlessly pull into your body, there's not a second that the Holy Spirit is not filling you with Me! It's a mystery beyond fathoming. 
So yes, My love, you are miraculously close to Me. You are filled with the answered prayer I prayed to the Father Who gave His All for you.  Try to be more conscious of your breathing....whispering My Name throughout the day as you breathe in and out. It will help you remember and experience just how close I am. Didn't I promise I would never leave you or forsake you? Believe it! It's true!

*I looked up how breathing works and was astonished at the intricacy and detail God created. See below:

When we breathe in, air enters our nose where dust and other particles are filtered out--the 1st line of defense. Here the air is warmed and moistened before  it travels down, past the throat, through  the windpipe or trachea. The trachea and  other air passages are lined with a sticky  mucus that traps germs and particles be- fore they enter our lungs-our 2nd line of defense. Special cells called cilia have  tiny waving hairs that push this mucus  up and out of our lungs along with all  the pollution it has trapped--our 3rd line  of defense. After the air flows down the  trachea, it passes into two large tubes  called bronchi that carry air into our  lungs and then into smaller and smaller  branches called bronchioles. The  bronchioles lead to tiny air sacs,  the alveoli, which transfer oxygen to  the blood and remove carbon dioxide  that makes the same return trip when  we breath out. Here, there is even a  4th line of defense, the alveolar  macrophages. These scavenger cells  eat foreign particles and bacteria that  would make us sick. All this is happening as we obliviously go through our days....amazing!