  God's care for the universe and its constituents is a matter of God's knowing and paying attention to all things. From God's point of view, nothing happens by chance. The universe is a teleological or goal-directed order, in which each thing has a function or purpose established by God. God's care is his concern that each thing fulfills its appointed function. Thus, God is not necessarily concerned with what we might think is best for individual things: flies get eaten by spiders, but this in fact is an end for which they were created. In the case of human beings, however, who are the apex of creation, their end is to experience happiness in union with God, and God's providential care of human beings is aimed at this.