Asking

"Seek greed, seek to be eager in the practice of religion and in good works: they are still beautiful, even when the greed and eagerness are gone...
Unless the intelligent had experienced God's beneficence more than a thousand times, how should they have moved themselves towards God?
No, all the fish in the waves of the sea, all the birds in the lofty regions of the sky,
The elephant and the wolf, and also the hunting lion, the huge dragon, and also the ant and the snake,
No, earth and wind and water and every spark of fire gains subsistence from God, both in December and spring.
This heaven and earth is making entreaty unto the One incessantly, "Do not forsake me, O God, for a single moment!"...
Come, ask of God, not of anyone except God, seek water in the sea, do not seek it in the dry river bed.
And if you ask another, it is God that gives; it is God that lays generosity on the open hand of that other one's inclination."

Rumi (Vol.4, 1130-1183)

Commentary: We have to ask. And it is God who is always giving. But do we notice that generosity?