Thank you for triggering me to re-read this fabulous piece today. To answer your question, as my guides and highest power have explained to me, bad things happen NOT because "God" lacks omnipotence as Harold Kushner postulated, but because our souls designed the improv-scripted human experience of each incarnation to challenge us further as spiritual beings living the human experience. The details of my understanding can be found here https://medium.com/illumination-curated/life-is-school-for-the-soul-9b081dbe8453