God grounds reality and in the theological sense the goodness of the worlds life but does not answer specific why questions. If we need god simply in order to understand and accept our very reality, then our relation to god in particular circumstances will not be of need in the ordinary sense a desperate effort to make god supply this or that desired gratfication. We should be instead be capable of receiving god as pure gift, unexpected good news as energy absolutely uncontainable, me irreducible different, as God.