@hominid, you say “I, @hominid, see these things that are separate from me, and I ascribe certain meanings to them. I am a person in the world and these are facts.”
If you look deeper (and it takes a change in perspective), you may see that there is another you that observes all of the above happening, but is not involved with or attached to the activity.
If the former version of you is found to be false because the latter version is true, then identifying with the true version also dispels the projections of the former you. The seer (you), seen (catastrophes), and seeing (the meanings ascribed) are enveloped in and witnessed by the latter you and are found to be only a succession of projections believed in.
To a part of your original question, “how do we make sense of God’s pattern of intervention?” Consider all the concepts at play. There’s a separate you and me, a separate God, separate tragedies and miracles and a separate pattern to be discerned or dismissed. Instead, what if all of this is just a play of consciousness? (The purpose of which is to drive one to self-realization.) Consider the folly of assuming God intervenes on certain occasions and not others. Easily, the idea splits groups between those who believe in certain interventions and the skeptics. What if, however, God actually manifested every moment and every experience for the sake of teaching transcendence? Further, what if our conventional idea of God was also a mistake of separateness, and instead we came to realize that we are all, so to speak, the fingertips of God, believing mistakenly that the other fingertips are separate from us and that we are somehow unconnected to God’s hands. What would be the meaning of all the terrible deaths and destruction, if all of these tragedies and sometimes good experiences were purposely played out before us?