Life can be too busy
Sometimes, the most beautiful things around us get ignored: Nature. People. The Creator.
You may of heard about it (it was news to me), but one of the most talented violinists of our age, Joshua Bell, played in a Washington D.C. metro station as a simple street performer. Over one thousand commuters passed by him on a Friday morning in January.
Take 10 minutes and read about what happened here.
It reminds me that I can miss seeing, and hearing, what’s beautiful. So let’s keep our eyes, and ears, open.
(Just to whet your appetite):
"’At a music hall, I’ll get upset if someone coughs or if someone’s
cellphone goes off. But here, my expectations quickly diminished. I
started to appreciate any acknowledgment, even a slight glance up. I
was oddly grateful when someone threw in a dollar instead of change.’
This is from a man whose talents can command $1,000 a minute."
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February 28, 2008@ 3:26 pm
Amazing. How our perceptions color our actions……….not only with music, but with the hearts of people!
February 28, 2008@ 8:16 pm
Good article.
February 28, 2008@ 10:53 pm
I saw this story last year (I think) and it was (and is) a great story! I think I used it in a sermon out of my series on Romans.
February 29, 2008@ 3:37 am
i also remember the article coming out (we may have even been in DC at the time) and was struck as you many were by the harsh realities