A new preacher was walking with an older more seasoned preacher in the garden one day.

Feeling a bit insecure, he wondered aloud about the WILL OF GOD for his life and for his Ministry. Walking to a rosebush, the older preacher plucked a rosebud and asked the younger preacher to open it without tearing off any petals. It wasn’t long before the young preacher realized how impossible it was to do so.

Noticing the younger preacher’s dilemma, the older preacher said. “It is only a tiny rosebud, a flower of God’s design; but a man’s clumsy hands cannot open it. The secret of unfolding flowers is not known to us. GOD opens this flower so sweetly, when in our hands they break up and die. If we cannot unfold a simple rosebud, then how can we have the wisdom to unfold our lives? So let us trust Him to lead each moment of our days. Let us look to him for His guidance each step of the pilgrim’s way. The pathway that lies before us, only our Heavenly Father knows. He is the master designer. Let us trust Him to unfold the moments, just as He unfolds the rose”