One year ago I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep and I thought of the picture of a piano I had put up on my pantry a few years ago. I sighed and said, "God, when am I going to be able to get a piano?" Immediately into my head popped the answer, "What about those shares?" Shares? Oh! That's right! I was a member of NIB when they floated as a public company and I got shares. "Probably worth a couple of thousand by now, I guess," I mused. Maybe enough for a basic small upright piano. Nothing fancy. Early that same year Ian Miller, the senior pastor at my church, had prophesied to me, "just you wait and see what God's gonna do for you this year!" Number 1: a long desired piano! Thank you Lord. As it turned out, I had several thousand dollars left over from the purchase of the piano. I wondered what to do with this money. Re-invest? Put it into the mortgage? Hmmm....
View from the top of the Rocinha favela. Rocinha is the largest favela in Rio and there is a lot more you can't see in this picture. The following picture is with Dylan, the volunteer coordinator, and Reuben, a graffiti artist who works in the favela a couple of days a week beautifying the poorest parts of the favela (where they can't afford paint or decorative items).
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