The way I see it, God is like the director of a play. The play is all the best plays in the world, every tragedy, comedy and the rest, all put together in one play, Life. We're the actors, except we don't know how the play ends, because we haven't read the entire script. But the Director has: and when when the actors talk to the Director, they get help.
Actors still get to pick the little things that they do, of course. They have their own acting style. But some actors like to work all by themselves, without other actors, or even without the Director. So they mess up their part of the Play and things get messy. Of course, the Director is always right there, ready to help them out again.
When the play is all acted out and the lights are turned off, all the actors go Home.