‘Walking with God’

Almost everyone wants to be righteous, to do the right thing, and they also find the self-righteous to be a pain in the neck. Almost everyone desires to be protected from evil but find very disturbed paths to this purpose.
This god who walks by our side does not need to possess a real or physical existence, a virtual, or imaginary existence will provide the purpose.
Children imbue their teddy bears with powers of comfort and friendship, paediatric nurses and doctors know the importance of these to children under stress. Adults too need imaginary ‘beings’ and heroes as in plays, books, song and music etc. They may make fun of children’s teddy bears yet they are unconscious that they too have their own ‘teddy bears’, they are simply more sophisticated according to education and intelligence. Sometimes a picture or a letter can summon up the comforting images of home and love. It takes imagination to realise that imaginary or virtual images, thoughts and emotions are as real as the rocks on the hill, because you cannot touch them does not mean they have no real existence.
Naturally mental illness can cause images and ideas that are ridiculous and dangerous but they are very real to the patient, because some imaginary ideas and thoughts are wrong or put to very evil purpose indeed does not mean that good ideas, thoughts an images should be expunged. This would leave cruelty to work unchallenged.
It is a strange paradox that those who are in most need of walking with god in a spirit of humility are those absolutists who behave as if they already possess the word of god.
The words of the old ‘gospel’ hymn: ‘ Just a closer walk with thee’ [you can listen to it free on the internet] say it all, echoed in the refrain in the Beatles song;
Let it Be.