Maybe we avoid the valleys because after climbing one damned mountain we don't have the energy to face the next one. Or maybe the view from the mountain top is just too intoxicating. And besides, once in the valley, we are forced to look up! I've learned alot about the ways God nudges us to look up lately. I've spent months, not in a valley, but in a pit. I look up and scream at God to tell me what he wants me to know without me having to work so hard to understand.
But eventually, in God's own time, I begin to see things more clearly....learn things about myself I might never have learned without the experience of tumbling off the mountain and into the pit.
So now, I will begin to climb the next mountain, inch by inch. I look forward to the view from the top.