"this is still the best route"

1) Sefer Devarim is the mussar talk Moshe gave to Klal Yisrael before his death.  "R'ei anochi nosein lifneichem bracha u'klalah" is not something to cheer about; it's part of the mussar.  A little kid needs a lollipop as a motivation to do something he may not like.  He doesn't need the lollipop to go and play because that's something he enjoys.  If we loved avodas Hashem, why would we need brachos and klalos to motivate us to do the right thing?

2) Yesterday I was on the highway and was using Google Maps for directions and it unfortunately multiple times gave me messages like "30 minute delay ahead, but this is still the best route."  (I used Waze to check if it really was the best route -- am I paranoid for thinking that the machine just keeps saying "this is still the best route" because it wants to preserve its own credibility even when there is a better way to go?)  

My wife said that we were getting this message in Elul because it is telling us mussar.  So many times in life you hit slowdowns, bumps in the road, and you think that maybe if you change course and veer off in one direction or the other things will be better, but it's usually not true.  Despite the slowdowns, Hashem put us on what is "still the best route" to get us where we need to go.