A Preposition That Makes All the Difference

“In this place, Solomon bluntly asserts that God controls all things. He does not say how God does it. Only a blockhead of the first order of magnitude would think to explain the way in which God reveals Himself through His works . . . We tend to assume, echoing Shakespeare, that the history of all things is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But rather, it is a tale told to idiots. Both the righteous and the wicked are in the hand of God” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 91).