If you imagine God to have total control over whatever happens, it is difficult to explain why God allows genuinely terrible things to occur. I believe that it is better to think of the kind of control God has in relation to the kind of universe God creates. Creating a universe in which physical things and biological agents have genuine powers can be thought of as a kind of relinquishing of total control on the part of God. In this kind of universe what God is able to do depends on the receptiveness of created things. Rather than thinking of God’s acts as overriding the created order, I think it is better to imagine God’s power as being activated when created things come into alignment with divine purposes.