I don't remember having imaginary friends myself, but...

My friend Lisa told me that her little girl, Grace, talks about her "other brother." Well, Grace only has one brother. What that means, I don't rightly know. I have heard, though, that children aren't as far removed from the Veil as we adults are, for those of you who believe in such things.

Some of you in the US may have seen a story on 48Hours or one of those new programs, about a 4-year-old girl who got lost hiking with her grandparents. They did find her, alive and well (albeit hungry), but in an unlikely spot. She had to navigate some nasty rocks and water. They asked her how she did that, and she said, "My friend helped me." She was very matter-of-fact about this.

She said her friend was a little girl named Alicia, or something like that. It turns out that a little girl with a very, very similar name had got lost and died in that area many years ago. I'm not making this up.

Anyway, it gave me the willies. I think we should not pooh-pooh the little ones' invisible playmates. What is that verse in the Bible about entertaining angels unaware?