Mmmmmm. Kippers. Finest kind!
The question is not, "Is God in control?", but, "What has God decided to do?"
Sholem Aleichem and alleuia! Some people are wedded to a mechanistic, Newtonian view of things: Control means push button or pull lever, this or that happens.
Others however, having worked with animals or sailed boats, understand the control admits of delicacy and finesse, and even appears sometimes to be yielding. I get the boat where I want her to go by letting her do what she wants and by persuading her, by trimming the sails, using the rudder to change her hydrodynamic profile, that she wants what I want.
“Others however, having worked with animals or sailed boats, understand the control admits of delicacy and finesse, and even appears sometimes to be yielding. I get the boat where I want her to go by letting her do what she wants and by persuading her, by trimming the sails, using the rudder to change her hydrodynamic profile, that she wants what I want.”
One of my dogs is a Border Collie, and I’ve had one around for most of my adult life. I don’t try to train them or do trials - no facilities and no real desire. But I know they are the Lord’s own dogs, for God wants us to be Border Collies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYK-FbQPQ_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANDW4-tBxnw
You give a Border Collie goals, and help, but you cannot control every move. Even my own Border Collie makes his own decisions...he tries to figure out the goal, and then achieve it.