In my travels this week I had the blessing of listening to a tape called “Sleep Deprivation”...and it has been just that ever since...Like a fire set to light the way to hear and to listen and then hear again I am stirred to sit at my desk and try to put to words what has opened up in me...Yet to do so it has truly been an exercise in prayer starting with:  

Ps.4: 1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. 6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety

According to the Eaton dictionary: Selah (Hebrew: סלה) may be the most difficult word in the Hebrew Bible to translate. Selah is probably either a liturgical-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen.” The Psalms were sung accompanied by musical instruments and there are references to this in many chapters. Thirty-one of the thirty-nine psalms with the caption "To the choir-master []" include "Selah" so the musical context of Selah is obvious. Selah: notes a break in the song and as such are similar in purpose to Amen in that it stresses the importance of the preceding passage. 

Isa.64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Selah!

Isa.29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD...

Returning to the tape I mentioned and thinking on the verses that have come to the forefront: I am aware of several key notes...listening is a lost art, and being still even more a lost commodity in the day to day rushing here and there...yet for one that has been stirred by the Holy Spirit, to do just that, it is as a rain that is sweet to the brow.  

Hos.6: 1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. Selah!

In light of the new season we have entered...rain has such a part in the bringing forth of the new growth of nature...And it is with that same awareness that I can say the season has changed in the HS; for after (what I perceive as a very long winter) hearing the word ignite a fresh in me with just one tape...I can not be silent. For the vision born in me I am convinced is as the one spoken of in:

Rev.22: 1-2 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Selah!  Amen and Amen