This is Frank Henrich and I want to tell you a true story that I experienced during the summer of 1983. I was having trouble walking my Christian walk. In seeking help, I thought if Jesus wanted me to walk a better life, He would help me. So I started to pray for direction. Day after day, I prayed. 
   Growing roses is one of my hobbies. One day, there was a prize red rose in my garden and I picked it. The rose is known to rose growers as the Chrysler Imperial. It is a large fragrant red rose. This one was big and so beautiful, I selected a single rose vase to hold it -- to give it the honor it deserved - - and then placed it on the desk in my bedroom. For days, I watched the large bud open more and more. One night just before going to bed, I looked at it again. It was almost completely open, and I could smell its fragrance. I knew that the next morning when I woke, it would be in full bloom.
   When I opened my eyes the next morning, I remembered the rose and immediately looked over at it. It was bent over and dead. All its beauty was gone. I went over to see what had happened. It was then that I saw the problem. The water had dropped to a level below the rose stem during the night. I thought, “Oh no! I feel cheated. If I had only checked the water level last night.”
   But it was time to go to work so I started to dress, and while sitting on the edge of my bed something happened to me that I will never forget. I was pulling on my socks when this rare event happened. I was facing away from the desk with the rose.
   In my mind's eye, you know the theatre in your mind, where you relive memories, I saw the rose in the vase again - - dead and bent over. And at the same moment, I received into my mind a silent word thought that I knew did not come from me. The thought was, “You have to stay in the nourishment, if you want to walk in Me“. I immediately knew that the Lord Jesus had answered my prayer with the direction I had sought. My response was, “Lord show me the ways to stay in your nourishment.”
   How about you? Are you receiving nourishment?

SO YOUR DRIVING INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO GET INTO YOUR CAR AND TURN ON TO THE HIGHWAY OF FAITH, STEP ON THE GAS AND WITH PRAYER GO FORWARD STOPPING FOR REST AND SPRITUAL NOURISHMENT AT THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS DEFINED IN THE POEM.