To a man who was going through difficulties, the Rebbe wrote, God desires that everyone should be happy in their marriage, but life has zig-zags, and the purpose of those zigzags is to lead us toward our primary fulfillment of our soul’s mission
By zevi770 · August 20, 2013
In other words, when we begin to fulfill what our soul’s mission is, we annihilate the zigzags and things go in a straight line