God writes with crooked lines!
“You can be drawn along by what looks definitely like a divine Pattern simply to find that it ends negatively. You are left disconcerted, so sure were you that you were being led. But then you find that another development takes up from that one and, when followed up, completes the seemingly broken chain. Note that this interruption may not be one of direction – that is, leading on to a target different to the one originally aimed at. On the other hand, it may represent both a new pattern and a considerable halt in time. No doubt all this would be an exemplification of that process where God writes with crooked lines!”