Jenny Lind always spent a few minutes alone in her dressing room before a concert. Her maid, who locked the door and stood guard over it, has told what happened in those last moments of preparation. Miss Lind would stand in the middle of the floor, her shoulders back and her head up, draw a deep breath, strike a clear, vibrant note, and hold it as long as her breath lasted. When the overtones had all died away, she would look up and say: "Master, let me ring true tonight!"

Jenny Lind’s prayer ought to be ours as "stewards of our gifts and abilities." "Let me ring true tonight."

Saint Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome: "So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us" (12:6).

We must add to our list of responsibilities as God’s caretakers:

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