... . Someone has said, "Our life is God's gift to us. What we make of our life is our gift to God." But that is not the end of the equation. God takes what we offer and adds even more. Charles L. Allen once told about a composer name Gioacchino Rossini who would go out to some small village in Italyone which could not afford an operaand he would write an opera which the people of that village could perform. One summer, he auditioned all of the talent in this small village, and the only woman who could possibly ...