This photograph was taken at Glacier NP as we neared the Ptarmigan Tunnel (looking back). You can clearly see one of a number of switchbacks leading up to the tunnel.

If you’ve done much hiking, I’m sure you realize that switchbacks allow you to go up a hill that you would not be able to climb directly up. It’s not hard to think of life as a series of switchbacks. Sudden changes in life take us in a completely different and almost opposite direction from where we were previously going. And yet, looking back we can see how God is drawing us towards our ultimate destination.