Selah

It's been a long couple of weeks.  I worked a lot (12 hours a day for nine of the last eleven days) so blogging had to be postponed. It was too many hours to be honest.  It wears you out and takes away your ability to look at your life as a whole.  Don't get me wrong, there are times when you just need to work long hours on something for a while and to do so is the best thing you can do.  For example: the relief work in Japan after the earthquake is not a task that allows one to simply stop the effort and go home because it's that time of day.  However, these times must be balanced with times of reflection and intentional focus.

In Psalms the term "Selah" was often used to designate something worth thinking about.  No one actually knows what "Selah" means exactly. The general consensus is that it is either a musical term, used to mark a pause, or that it was meant to imply a break which was meant to be used to think about the weight of what was just said.  Either way the implication to me becomes clear that it's good to stop and reflect from time to time, especially before or after a period of hard work.

I feel like I need to take time to pray and reflect .  So that's what I'm going to be doing for the next several posts.  I'll be looking at the journey that God has been working on in my heart for the last several years and how I ended up where I am now.  Some of it will be stuff I have already figured out about myself, but hopefully some of it will be things I have grown in and I will be able to learn about myself and my beliefs.


Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.