God in us

So i've pondered differences in this concept of understanding the divine. I wonder why God gets the credit when things go well, but not the credit when things go wrong.  I wonder why we praise him in advance for only the good, but when a travail comes we hide and sulk and feel departed from God.  If God is God, then I assume God can take a punch, joke, ridicule, scorn, cursing, and or a myriad of our tirades and hissy-fits.

Yet we tend to trap God in a box, and keep/reserve the good things, as if God was only around during these.  Yet if God is to truly be one with his creation, why can't the good the bad and the ugly be considered just a part of the process of life?  I tend lean towards that if it's bad that happens around us, through us and to us, then it's just as much God at work as it is "life" at work.

Instead of thanking God for giving you the victory, the win, the whatever, we should begin Thanking God for the opportunity to grow, because through the ups and the downs (which in life there will be many) we should be growing no matter what this "BS" game we call life throws at us.

Ponder this: Did God create the system to self-sustaining, therefore there is no real interaction (everyday) with humanity? or is God involved heavily in the daily affairs of humanity? Either one provides the pessimist and the optimist fuel.