What's your Trigger?

Garth Heckman 

The David Alliance

 

I put a new binary trigger in my AR a few years back… whoa that think is smoking. I can go through 30 rounds in about 3 seconds…

But its all because of the trigger… So whats your trigger? 

 

Whats your trigger?

 

What is a trigger? Triggers, also known as emotional or mental health triggers, are stimuli like memories, objects, things, places or people that spark intense negative emotions. These triggers can lead to a sudden and often disproportionate emotional response compared to the stimulus.

 

You don’t get to put all your feelings away like you do your Christmas ornaments… and then go through them whenever you want to. They will pop up like a change in the weather or an unseen pothole or even like a shooting star… out of nowhere you get hit and it can unbuckle an avalanche of reactions. 

 

One of my favorite quotes is to have a mind like water. It basically means to have a mind that responds to things like water. Water always responds appropriately. You never drop a pebble into a pond and produce a tidal wave. And when a boulder topples down a hill crashing into a lake it doesn’t just ripple…it looks like a bomb going off. Water always responds appropriately. 

 

How do you find out your triggers? Well anything that causes an unplanned emotional wash… you feel your mental makeup just become flooded with uncontrollable feelings…. Sometimes causing outburst.. .but not always. This is when you look back on your life and figure out what was that trigger from? 

 

Psalm 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

V. 24 see if there is any offensive way in me…

 

David is asking God - look for my anxious thoughts, my triggers and see if they might cause me to become offensive in anyway.

Look Social media is a hotbed of triggers. And its easy to post your trigger happy reaction when no one is in front of you! But as followers of Christ, we need to make sure we don’t just DO what Jesus did, but we RESPOND the way Jesus did. 

 

 

 

 

 

How to be a man March 26th GRUB@ 6:45, MTG @7:15 HillSpring Church. Looking for your thoughts ideas and topics.

200 E 280th New Prague MN

HillSpringChurchNewPrague@Gmail.com

 

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