Selah. I'm grateful for selah. If you are going, "what?!" let me define it for you. Selah: pause and think on that, interlude, pause. Got it? Basically it is a word that says, "Hey *this* is important to stop at and consider and think through or think about. Rest on *this* for a moment before continuing." I'm so grateful for selah. If I didn't have selah moments in my life then I would just speed through without ever noticing anything around me. Selah gets me to "stop and smell the roses." I first discovered selah when reading the Psalms in the Bible. You might have seen it to the side or underneath a verse before continuing on to the next. It's saying, "whoa, that was important so think about it a little before just moving on." So I started doing that, with the verses in Psalms and the verses in the Bible overall. Then I started doing it in my life with moments and relationships and conversations, even with work related things. It makes a difference to not just blow by someone or something but to stop, pause, and think on them or it. Try it, you may like it. Then we can be grateful together for selah.
I've been thinking about it for over a month. Usually, when I'm in it I'm engaged. But this time? I started it indifferent and I've felt indifferent all along. I should have never started. Hindsight is 20/20 they say and they aren't wrong. So when I opened my eyes this morning it was clear. It's time. Time to quit this 365. This is the first 365 that I haven't posted several of the days, the first 365 that I wasn't super excited about, the first 365 that I've quit. I've changed my social media presence and interactions the past year so this is also the first 365 that hardly anyone has been interested in. Is it the topic or my decision to not be as accessible on social media? Or is it some other reason altogether? Well, regardless...I'm throwing in the towel on this one. I can't say if I'll ever do another 365 again. Time will tell and I will know if and when it's time.
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