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Slum songs Bible in one year: Joshua 22–24 Luke 3 They will enter Zion with singing; eternal joy will crown their heads. Isaiah 35:10 Isaiah 35 Cateura is a small slum in Paraguay, South America. Desperately poor, their villagers survive recycling items from their dumpster. But something beautiful has emerged from these unpromising conditions: an orchestra. With a violin that more than a house in Cateura, the orchestra had to be creative, making its own instruments from its garbage supply. The violins are made of oil cans with forks folded like back pieces. Saxophones come from drain pipes with key bottle caps. The celloes are made of tin drums with gnoson rollers to tune pegs. Listening to Mozart in these gadgets is a beautiful thing. The orchestra has toured many countries, looking up to its young members. Landfill violins. Slum music. That's symbolic of what God does. Because when the prophet Isaiah imagines God's new creation, A similar picture emerges of the beauty of poverty, with barren lands bursting into blooming flowers (Isaiah 35:1–2), deserts flowing with streams (vv. 6–7), castaway war tools made from garden instruments (2:4), and impoverished people who turn whole to the sound of joyful songs (35:5–6 , 10). "The world sends us garbage," says the conductor of Cateura's orchestra. "We send music." And as they do, they give the world a vision of the future, when God will wipe away the tears of every eye and poverty will no longer be. Reflect & Pray How have you seen God turn the "garbage" of your life into something beautiful? How could he wish to take "music" out of your pain? Holy Spirit, turning poverty into my life into something beautiful 
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This makes me feel so humble when I realize all I have, and I still complain. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Thanks for bringing this inspiring music ensemble/orchestra to our attention - can't help but marvel at the enterprising music teacher's vison/creativity and the community's willingness to make it happen from salvaging parts to the making of instruments to the discipline of the young participants making way for hope and bringing dignity to a community which has very little in way of material possessions/living standards. 'And I think to myself, what a wonderful world' - Louis Armstrong 
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