Parakalein

God controls and orders all things yet bizarre events happen that to put the control over, allowance of, or direction on God, is to do God a disservice.  We create a God after our own imagining no after looking at nature and what makes sense.  We told the youth group we managed a few years ago to being any teaching of the church about God that seemed wrong (they actually liked the more overt phrase of: "sick and twisted" and we would work to explore what alternative teaching or thought might actually be not "sick and twisted" but "healthy and untwisted".

God's holiness of character and will are healthy and wholly defined by compassion (Jesus going to the cross), calmness (the sea of glass in Revelation), courage (the creation of the world then letting it spin out of control but remaining connected to sand involved in the life of earth and its inhabitants), collaboration (Working out our own salvation, knowing God is at work in us), cooperation (Living life to the fullness of enjoyment and purpose), and creative (always working all things to gather for goodness to come out of them no matter how devastating they may be" 

God loves surprises when we discover something that was there all the time because we slow down. God says it was there all the time.  No surprise to him unless we really do what he tells us is good for us then there is a good and Godly surprise