You'll notice nothing is ever said about him rescuing the sparrow.
Assuming for argument the existence of God (again, the simplest answer--right or wrong--for these deep questions is "There is no God, and shit happens.")
For free will to matter, the human universe has to be mostly a hands-off operation.
A two-year-old having cancer might not be learning anything important about life. You can be damn sure a lot of people around him are. Is this part of it?
C. S. Lewis has some good reading on this kind of thing, referred to in some theology as "the problem of pain."
A human parent often can't even explain the big picture to a three-year-old who wonders why they can't have candy for supper, why he has to get a shot at the doctor, or many other things. God's purposes aren't going to be any more perceptible to humans.
In short, I don't have all the answers either.
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God sees the sparrow fall.
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