Man is believed by many to be only what he appears to be, a corporeal being with a mind of his own. Even those who think of Almighty God as the only cause and creator still often finish up with an imperfect world and a mortal man.
This was the view of God and man held by the writer as a young family man until he found his own sense of logic on some religious points at variance with what he had been brought up to believe.
At that time a cascade of events had suddenly threatened to send his world tumbling around him; at the crisis point a well-intending visitor consolingly remarked, "It is God's will."
