Dodging the big question

I've been laughing all week.
Connor is very close to being ready for the great life talk. I almost got into it with him this past weekend.
Halloween night, I had 4 year old Spiderman in my backseat. We were heading to a Trunk Or Treat sponsored by one of my churches (the first of 3 we would try to go to that night). Since it was raining, I wasn't sure that the Trunk or Treat would still be held so I was trying to introduce the possibility that the rain might require things to be called off.
"Well, Grammy," Connor said very seriously, "God is going to disappoint a lot of children tonight if he doesn't stop this rain." And, after a short pause, he said, "Because, after all, He IS in charge of everything."
I wondered if I should try to explain the unexplainable...that here, in this fallen world, God isn't directly responsible for everything that happens. How does one explain that to a four year old? While I was searching for just the right words, we arrived at Chapel Hill UMC and Trunk or Treat was open for business. Whew.
As we were driving home, Connor was counting his haul of candy and remembering the fun detail by detail. Then he paused again and said, "Wasn't it great that God decided to stop the rain?".
I know that sometime we will have to have the conversation about life's more complicated realities. But, for our drive home, I agreed that God had been mighty good and, for however little he grasps about God's omnipotence, he was absolutely right in understanding God's heart. God wouldn't want the children to be disappointed.