You, too, have been intentionally planted. You didn’t land here by accident. The direction you face, the way your life slopes—none of it came about by happenstance. There may be days when you grow weary of climbing and you long for flatter terrain. But the slopes are overlaid with tremendous purpose. God uses them to tilt us toward the light, to drain the sludge from our hearts with spring rains, and to offer us a view of the landscape that will one day turn into vision.

