Saying that "nothing happens" that God does not "move forward" seems to make God the author of evil. Does God move childhood cancer forward? Did God move my mother's Alzheimer's forward? Did God move the Holocaust forward? I can't accept that. God allowing evil to happen for reasons we may not understand, I can accept. But not God making it happen. I can't worship a monster. And I certainly can't pray with confidence to a monster. God is our loving heavenly Father, not a cold, calculating puppet master in the sky.