When and How can we just leave it in the hands of God?

A friend worries that we may have to leave some things in the hands of God. This certainly resonates with a core aspect of my own thinking, at a time when the challenges before nus are overwhelming. But to think rationally about that aspect , we need to sharpen our vision of "What IS God?" 

JULY 4 2025: Major Revision As I Look At the Math\--AFTER

Earlier version:

A higher intelligence we are connected to?

Low as we are compared to all that exists, there are many intelligences higher than us. Fuzzy or fanciful pantheism is not so clear as picking a few to pay most attention to. 

For me  right now  I focus most on a kind of great trinity: (1) the universe itself; (2) the full noosphere organism of our solar system; and (3) my wife. Only (1) is in any sense omniscient. I struggle hard every week to better understand and better connect to all three.

I bcc the friend who recommended Jung's red book to me. I now refer to it as "my New testament", the closest I have to a second trusted holy book. "God" 2 often reflects what Jung calls "the spirit of the times". Jung's experience of the complexity of real life in the 1920s and later is relevant to what WE are facing now, though the challenges have all grown much greater. Our connections with higher intelligence are all two way connections, giving us ever more responsibilities, unless we choose just to fold and rest in peace, or dig a hole to hide in -- which is familiar to all higher intelligences and which they will accommodate with grace and sadness.

New Version:

The universe itself IS a KIND of intelligent system, maximizing (or minmax) the sum of its Lagrangian

over space time. BUT NORMALLY this sum is a highly nonconvex function. High level but finite

intelligent systems, with or without Quantum AGI capability, normally have evolved mechanisms to

reduce loss due to nonconvexity.  And so, for"miracles" at a practical level, still higher than archetypes,

we have more hope working with "Amaterasu"(as I describe, the entire solar system)and the related entity Jesus called "Father",more of the deep. Finite intelligence requires partnership.