This is part four of my stories about some strange coincidents which led me to some money - and what I'm supposed to do with it.
See also the previous parts and the last part which is going to follow tomorrow:

1. My "Deal with God" – Preamble
2. My "Deal with God" – The Forest
3. My "Deal with God" – The Transformation Box
4. My "Deal With God" – Steemit (this story here)
5. My "Deal With God" – The Neighbour of my Forest (tomorrow)

My "Deal with God" - Steemit

In Dezember 2017 everyone was talking about Bitcoin. I am an IT-Administrator, but I had no clue about blockchain and this stuff. So a wish grow in my head: "Buy a krypto-kitty!"
I know, sometimes I have strange wishes. But this one had a good reason. I wanted to practice blockchain. If I put 100 € into that game, then I am eager enough to understand it's rules. So I managed to buy 2 kitties and I generated one:

But now I was fixed to that stuff. The price of Bitcoin, Etherium, IOTA,… raised day by day. I got fomo (fear of missing out). I started to understand the technology. I even bought a book and read it in a few days. But I had no money to invest. And then, tchaka, I remembered my "Deal with God".
Is it possible, that He wants me to use the money, that I got from the transformation-box and that is in the stocks now, to invest in crypto-money?
There is no "yes" falling from the sky. But a permant idea, a wish that grows, to do it. There was no "Veto" from my consience. And again it was hard to convince my wife, but at the end she agreed.
So I sold my stocks (with some profit) and bought Ether, IOTA and some altcoins from it, but no Bitcoin, because of the intolerable energy-costs.

I heard podcasts about the different coins and so I came to steem and the social media plattform steemit.com. I was addicted to it since beginning. I registered, but my success in earning money with it was very low. In the first month I got roundabout 1 SBD.

But I didn't give up.

In march 2018 my family and I wanted to visit my daughter Ayleen (@aymertens), which is working in Uganda at "Vision for Africa", a charity organisation. So I put both together: Steemit.com and collectiong information about Uganda.
I found some very interesting people (@jaraumoses, @tesaganewton) and we startet to communicate on steemit. When I said, that I wanted to promote Steemit in "Vision for Africa", @Jaraumoses offered to visit me there.
This is really a great story and you can read in his and my timeline how it went on in more detail.

On 4/10/2018 @Jaraumoses, @Yohan2on and I sat in "Vision for Africa" in Mukono/Uganda. We had good discussions and some ideas how to make steemit great in their country. We created an agreement.
See (Must-read:Great Partnership Achieved in Promoting Steemit in Uganda Achieved Between German Steemian and Team Uganda) or here (Agreement with Jarau Moses and Yohan Onyeli V1.0)

I bought a Steemit-T-Shirt with real SBD.

And I supported our "Team Uganda" with my first rate of 75€ (37 SBD).
But I cannot do much more from Germany to support my friends. My votes were worth 0.005 SBD, so one could not even see it in the prize-field, that I voted. I was just a minnow.

In Uganda, on our trip back from the safari, I had an inspiration (an "idea" or "call" or whatever) in my head: I should "be a whale". I have spoken about this to a friend (Jörg) on a break. Less then 10 minutes later, we drove through the village "bweyale".

I mean, everything can happen everywhere, but some coincidents are too strange to me to be just a "coincident".
But how can I get a whale?
Then I remembered my "Deal with God" again.
Back in Germany I shifted most of my Ether into Steem and moved it to my Steemit.com account. My Steempower raised from 7 to 270 Steem. Now a full upvote is worth 8 Steemcent (depending on the exchangerate) - this is a lunch for Uganda people (at least one "rolex").
I can distribute them 10 times a day, without losing my own money.
And now I earn with my stories that much Steamdollars on Steemit, that I can pay the promised 75 € per month, without withdrawing it from my Euro-account.

God is so great. He really plays this game together with me.
But that's not all. See what happened next in:
My "Deal with God (5/5) - The neighbor of my Forest"

Regards, Achim