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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, April 21st, 2020. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are tackling one of the biggest questions we face as Christians. Why does God

let evil things happen? And we are searching for this answer amid the crazy

pandemic that we are all living through. Yesterday, we already learned that it is not God's plan

when things like people that we love die. It's not God's plan. However, God does allow them to happen.

Because with each act of creation, whether he was creating an animal, a plant, or a human

being, God gives up control. Now, we are going to look at this point even more closely today

because this is such a big point.

Now, I want you to go in your mind all the way back to the very moment when God created

the heavens and the earth. God created everything that we see, everything we experience.

He created it. And he didn't just create things,

but he created rules to govern all of his creation. He created a sun that shines during the day

and it is hidden and we have darkness to rest at night. There's a rule. We can clock it.

We can time it. We can see the rules that God put in place to govern the days and the nights.

All parts of creation have these rules. The ocean moves with the tide. We can know when that will happen. We can see how it churns the

water of the ocean. Even flowers bloom at certain times. They need bees to come and pollinate them.

All of these things have rules. We learn in science class all about these rules, where we can

predict and even make guesses at the future, very good guesses about what will happen because of

these rules. Now, each time that God created something in the natural world, he put these rules in place.

And he then, once again, he gave up some of his control. God is not there directing how each

plant grows, what each animal does with each moment of its life. He created foxes according to

certain rules and rabbits and gophers, all according to certain rules, and he lets them live.

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