God the director, not the puppeteer

Some Frederick Buechner, my favorite writer, following up "so you think you've got it figured out".

"God acts in history and in your and my brief histories not as the puppeteer who sets the scene and works the strings but rather as the great director who no matter what role fate casts us in conveys to us somehow from the wings, if we have our eyes, ears, hearts open and sometimes even if we don't...

...how we can play those roles in a way to enrich and ennoble and hallow the whole vast drama of things including our own small but crucial parts in it."

One day we'll have the answers to the why questions. In the mean time, it doesn't hurt to ask them, at the appropriate time, but know that he who became baby, man, crucifixion victim, voluntarily - HAS BEEN EXALTED, GIVEN THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME - EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD!