Home by the Zigzag Path

"...He keeps close watch on all my paths." ~ Job 33:11

"We climbed the height by the zigzag path
And wondered why -- until
We understood it was made zigzag,
To break the force of the hill.

A road straight up would prove too steep
For the traveler's feet to tread;
The thought was kind in its wise design
Of a zigzag path instead.

It is often so in our daily life;
We fail to understand
That the twisting way our feet must tread
By Love alone was planned.

Then murmur not at the winding way
It is our Father's will
To lead us Home by the zigzag path,
To break the force of the hill." ~anon.

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom." ~ Isaiah 40:28