Coach's Original Musiquarium, Day 5
One of the suggestions that my classmates had for me from last week’s mid-term review is to be aware of over-connecting with families and trying to do too much. I’ve taken that to heart, and have developed a new goal.
I want to change the world. And I am going to do it.
I have read that every time water flows over a rock in a stream, it takes a little piece of the rock away with it, and it leaves a little bit of water behind. Sometimes, the rock is dislodged and travels downstream with the water. Sometimes the rock diverts the water into going somewhere it had never intended.
On October 23, 1984, a singer for a moderately successful Irish band watched a BBC news show about the famine in Ethiopia. He decided to try to do something. He wrote a song and made some phone calls to see if some of his friends would be willing to sing on this charity single. They quickly booked a studio and rushed the song our for the British Christmas market. He hoped that it would make £70,000. “Do they know it’s Christmas” made several millions of pounds and inspired an American version, “We are the World.” This Sunday, July 13 marks the 23rd anniversary of the follow-up to those two records, Live Aid, which were simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia that hoped to raise $2 million dollars to help fight the famine in Africa. It raised over $283 million. No one was more surprised than the struggling singer with who saw the report and wanted to try to do something.
Because Bob Geldof heard about a problem, and decided to do something about it, he raised money but he also raised consciousness. While the problem hasn’t been solved, the problem and underlying issues are being addressed.
One man saw an injustice and tried to do something. And it exceeded beyond his wildest dreams. The law of unintended consequences says that for every cause, not only is there an effect, but a side effect. We never know what it is.
Every encounter we have will have unintended consequences. During CPE, the awkward visit, the fumbling for words, the poorly worded prayer, while uncomfortable and embarrassing for us may be exactly what that patient or family member needed to hear. Every visit, however innocent, or unremarkable has an effect. We leave a little bit of us behind, and we take a little bit of them with us. Sometimes we move them. Sometimes they move us. Sometimes, we can change the world because you don’t know what effect, intended or not, you may have.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4.4)
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays from Live Aid
Bonus video - Do They Know It's Christmastime by Band Aid, The Pop Up Video version
Sorry for the staticy audio
I want to change the world. And I am going to do it.
I have read that every time water flows over a rock in a stream, it takes a little piece of the rock away with it, and it leaves a little bit of water behind. Sometimes, the rock is dislodged and travels downstream with the water. Sometimes the rock diverts the water into going somewhere it had never intended.
On October 23, 1984, a singer for a moderately successful Irish band watched a BBC news show about the famine in Ethiopia. He decided to try to do something. He wrote a song and made some phone calls to see if some of his friends would be willing to sing on this charity single. They quickly booked a studio and rushed the song our for the British Christmas market. He hoped that it would make £70,000. “Do they know it’s Christmas” made several millions of pounds and inspired an American version, “We are the World.” This Sunday, July 13 marks the 23rd anniversary of the follow-up to those two records, Live Aid, which were simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia that hoped to raise $2 million dollars to help fight the famine in Africa. It raised over $283 million. No one was more surprised than the struggling singer with who saw the report and wanted to try to do something.
Because Bob Geldof heard about a problem, and decided to do something about it, he raised money but he also raised consciousness. While the problem hasn’t been solved, the problem and underlying issues are being addressed.
One man saw an injustice and tried to do something. And it exceeded beyond his wildest dreams. The law of unintended consequences says that for every cause, not only is there an effect, but a side effect. We never know what it is.
Every encounter we have will have unintended consequences. During CPE, the awkward visit, the fumbling for words, the poorly worded prayer, while uncomfortable and embarrassing for us may be exactly what that patient or family member needed to hear. Every visit, however innocent, or unremarkable has an effect. We leave a little bit of us behind, and we take a little bit of them with us. Sometimes we move them. Sometimes they move us. Sometimes, we can change the world because you don’t know what effect, intended or not, you may have.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4.4)
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays from Live Aid
Bonus video - Do They Know It's Christmastime by Band Aid, The Pop Up Video version
Sorry for the staticy audio
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