Stop to Smell the Roses?

So many good and thought-provoking things filled this week. Here are a few:

Book of the Week: Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Ian Osborn.

If you are curious about how the Christian faith can be involved in the treatment of psychological disorders, you should read this book. Osborn takes you through some of the greatest leaders in Christian history who struggled with OCD  including Martin Luther, John Bunyan, and Saint Thérèse and how they overcame this malady with faith and God’s grace.

Article of the Week: Stop to Smell the Roses?

In a cold Washington DC Metro Station in 2007, a street musician plays his violin. Approximately 1500 hurried people pass by the beautifully played masterpieces of Bach.

After playing for 3 minutes-  65 people had already passed, finally a middle-aged man seemed to acknowledge the music by turning his head, never slowing his pace, but nonetheless, noticing the music.

After 6 minutes-  Finally someone leans against a wall and pauses to listen.

10 minutes-  a 3-year-old boy stops, but his mother adamantly tugs him along. Again, the child stops to listen, and again, the mother hurries him. This process is repeated among several children and their parents within the hour.

45 minutes-  7 people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance for at least a minute. 27 people throw some money in the case on the run. The man earns $32, not bad for just an hour in the Metro.

1 hour- He stops. Nothing is heard other than the muffled sounds of scurried people on their way to work. With no applause, the man places his violin back in the case and moves on.

The violinist was none other than Joshua Bell, one of the finest classical musicians in the world, performing the most intricate pieces ever written, playing a $3.5 million violin!

This was a social-experiment put together by the Washington Post. Click here for the article.

Hundreds of people with only one focus- get to where I need to go, cell phones to their ears, coffee in their hands, racing in the rush of the modern world.

If they missed something so incredible, it begs the question, what kind of things are we missing?

Song of the week: Teen Angst- M83.  Album of the Week: Funeral- Arcade Fire. A little older, but still so good.

Fun Events of the week:

Carving pumpkins with the neighbor boys. So cute!

Halloween/Birthday Party with some of the young adults from church. My favorites were Richard Simmons and the Swine Flu.

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