Just Right

 

Let me start off by admitting that taking a desirable, suggested, moderate, moral stance between extremes, be they contraries or contradictories, is never a precise quantity or formula; it is almost always variable depending on circumstances, the participants and their personal needs and desires configured. Good luck figuring out what just right means for you, but you should be able to establish that state after some readjusting, and further readjusting.

 

Our relationship with a benevolent deity that we worship requires that the relationships be just right: we do not want to be arrogant, insulting, rebellious and hostile, out to undermine the deity and her preferences. We do not want to be too dependent, too submissive, to deferential, never able to converse with her as a friend, though she is our boss.

 

We do not want to pray to her too often, say every 3 minutes, all of our waking hours. Nor do we want to go 5 months and not attend a service in her honor or pray at night on bended knee for her protection, guidance and forgiveness.

 

Benevolent deities are individualists so we do not want to approach them as we would our peers especially if group-living and group-identity relations are our prime interests.

 

Benevolent deities are individualists, so we do not want to smother them, by getting too close to them, or be cold and remote, like living in a galaxy apart from them about 5 million miles away.