Stumbling

"O Lord!

"All our trouble comes to us
from not having our eyes fixed upon Thee.

"If we only looked
at the way along which we are walking,
we should soon arrive;
but we stumble and fall a thousand times
and stray from the way
because, as I say,
we do not set our eyes
on the true Way."
from The Way of Perfection, Chapter 16
by St. Teresa of Avila