Dot Dot Dot

On Monday, Bob and I went to the Conference For Newly Accredited Ministers. Not that we are NAMs – but we go every year, to promote the benefits of joining the Ministers’ Fellowship and encourage the NAMs to get their spouses to join Connexion. Our friend Paul Goodliff led the worship, and used some responsive prayers, and also asked us to read the Psalm aloud.

Two things that I noticed during the worship.

First that one of the prayers included ellipses, that is

…

Second, the Psalm included the word Selah

Paul read the first part of the prayer beautifully, and I noticed that he was careful to pause when he came to each ellipsis [definition “a mark (as …) indicating an omission or a pause”]

The group reading the Psalm seemed less certain about Selah – I think some were unsure what it meant.[What do they teach them in theological colleges these days?] One definition I like is “pause to carefully weigh the meaning of what we have just read or heard, lifting up our hearts in praise to God for His great truths.”

As I have pondered on the service, I have thought how important it is to pause, and think about things. It is too easy to rush on sometimes, and not really absorb what is being said.

In Morse code, … stands for the letter S.

S for “Selah”

S for “Slow down a minute”

S for “Stop and Think about it”

So that’s what I am trying to do…