THE SERIES
The Selah Series
Seven short books for the long way through fear — one hard place at a time.
Selah is a word that keeps turning up in the middle of the Psalms, and is never explained. Most read it as a rest mark: stop here. Breathe. Then go on.
Fear doesn't arrive as one thing. It shows up in the body first, then in the tiredness, then in what you believe about yourself, then at 2 a.m., then in the silence where an answer should have been, then in the thoughts that keep coming back. Seven books, seven of those places. Each one short enough to read on a bad day.
You can read them in order, or take the one that matches the week you're having. Nothing in them asks you to feel calm before you start.
ONE
When Peace Won't Come
For the times you've prayed and your body is still shaking.
TWO
When You're Too Tired to Pray
For the stretch when the Bible stays closed and you can't explain why.
Coming
THREE
When Saying No Feels Like a Sin
For when "no" gets stuck behind the fear of being too much.
Coming
FOUR
When 2 A.M. Finds You Awake
For the hour when your mind is still trying to solve tomorrow.
Coming
FIVE
When You Suspect It's Something You Did
For the season where your prayers go up and nothing comes back.
Coming
SIX
When Your Thoughts Turn Against You
For the thought that keeps returning, no matter how hard you pray it away.
Coming
SEVEN
A Prayer to Match What You're Feeling
For the days when you need the words to already be there.
Coming
The 30-Day Faith Journal
Thirty days, thirty verses, and a page to be honest on.
For the mornings when you need somewhere to put it.
About the Author
I've walked through a lot in my life: hard seasons, real obstacles, and a few problems I wasn't sure I would come through. I came through every one of them with God's help. I'm not a pastor, a therapist, or a coach. I'm a friend who has been there.
For as long as I can remember, people have come to me with whatever was weighing on their hearts: friends, family, coworkers. Not just to unload, but to hear an honest word and a direction to walk in.
I know anxiety from the inside. In a short span of time, many people disappeared from my life. I didn't understand why, and I kept running after what was being taken from me. The more I chased, the lonelier I felt, until I grew anxious around people at all.
What turned it around was my faith, my prayers, and one quiet discovery: being alone is not the same as being lonely. I had not spent a single day without God. Slowly I understood what He had been doing. Those people didn't belong in my life. He had drawn me aside and led me into the quiet, and I began to love the stillness I had once feared. Only later did I see why: so that I could sit with others in theirs.
That's why I write these books, with care and with honesty. Not from above you, but beside you.
Arthur J. Shepherd
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