October 9, 2024 • 33 mins
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As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida Amy Watson is faithfully trusting in the Lord and His will while preparing to hunker down until the storm passes.
Even during this time she always has you, her listeners in her heart and mind and recognizes that during these uncertain times we all need a little extra hope and comfort.
Join Amy as we combine two Wednesdays With Watson episodes that put the focus on the Lord during times of trouble.
The first is from Season 5 Summer in Psalms. The episode is called Exploring God's Faithfulness in Times of Trouble. Click HERE to listen to the full episode.
We have also included an episode from Season 3, Spaces, Places, and Aces. The episode is called Protecting Your Peace In A World That Is Not Peaceful. Click HERE to listen to this episode.
Navigating the stormy seas of life can leave us feeling adrift and uncertain, especially after the devastation brought by hurricanes Helene and Milton to the Southeast and Florida. Our episode invites you to explore how faith and the comforting words of the Psalms, alongside David Crowder's heartfelt music, can act as anchors during such tumultuous times. We reflect on the vital reminder that even when our spirits feel crushed, there is solace in knowing that God stands close to those who are hurting.
As the world grapples with civil unrest and its ripple effects on our mental well-being, particularly for those with PTSD or empathy overload, maintaining personal peace can seem like an insurmountable task. Drawing on insights from John Eldredge's "Take Your Life Back," we discuss practical strategies to reclaim serenity in the midst of global chaos. By reducing screen time and practicing benevolent attachment, we can learn to release burdens that aren't ours to carry. Faith and prayer emerge as powerful tools, helping us find strength and comfort in reclaiming our peace, an essential step for living a balanced life in turbulent times.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey everybody and welcome to the Wednesdays with
Watson podcast.
It is October of 2024.
And I had two separate episodesplanned for you today.
One of them we were going tostart our generational trauma
series, starting with the silentgeneration, but then we had
Hurricane Helene, which, ofcourse, has devastated a good
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portion of the Southeast.
We're going to talk about howto navigate that.
While en route to writing andrecording that episode, however,
we have another hurricane,hurricane Milton, headed
straight for Florida andstraight for us, and so my
producer and her just her joyand her passion for bringing
something to you guys every twoweeks has put together this
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compilation of a coupledifferent episodes that we did
to help us navigate some of thethings that we're going through.
I will be back in two weeks.
I don't know what that willlook like, honestly.
This hurricane is headedstraight for Florida and, in
particular, straight for thewest coast of Florida, where I
live.
I will be back at some pointand we will talk about how to
navigate disaster, but know thateven if you are not affected,
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if you are feeling all the feelsand struggling through this,
this is very normal and we'lltalk about how we can get
through this together.
But until then, until I can getback to you, hopefully in two
weeks, please enjoy thiscompilation that Amy Hyland, my
excellent producer, has puttogether for you.
If you are in the Southeast,particularly if you're under the
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sound of my voice and you're inthe western half of Florida,
the west coast of Florida, myprayer for you is that you will
be safe and that this hurricanewill not affect us, as it
appears that it may.
Until then, you guys know whatI'm going to say.
You are seen, you are known,you are heard, you are loved and
so, so valued.
Lord, I'm tired, so tired fromwalking and, lord, I'm so alone
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and, lord, the dark is creepingin, it's creeping in to swallow
me.
I think I'll stop and rest herefor a while, because this is
all that I can say right now.
This is all that I can give.
That's my everything.
Lord, didn't you see me cryingand didn't you hear me call your
name?
Wasn't it you that I gave myheart to?
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I wish you'd remember where yousat it down, because this is
all that I can say right now.
I know it's not much.
This is all that I can give,this is my everything.
This is all that I could sayright now I know it's not much,
but this is all that I can give,because this is my everything.
I didn't notice you werestanding here.
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I didn't know that it was youthat was holding me.
I didn't notice that you werecrying too.
I didn't know that it was youthat was washing my feet.
Because this is all that I cansay right now.
I know it's not much.
This is all that I can give.
This is my everything.
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This is all that I can give.
This is my everything.
This is all that I can sayright now.
This is my everything.
If the Psalms were still beingwritten today, this song by
David Crowder would be included.
I feel these lyrics deeply onthis day, and in a year, one
that has been difficult at best,this is all I can give Feels
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very real on this day, so I'mgoing to attempt to do that for
you today.
It feels like nothing that Ihave to offer to God or to you
by any way at this podcastepisode will be okay.
Right before I sat down towrite this episode, I sent a
text to my producer telling herwhat an imposter I felt like,
because I am a mental healthadvocate and in this difficult
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season, I seemingly haveforgotten all of my coping
skills and I find myself dealingwith tears that I did not
invite and won't leave.
They were like an unwelcomeguest sent to clean out
something I thought was alreadyclean.
And so I ask, as David Crowderdid in this song, lord, don't
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you see me crying?
And then I remember it is himthat is holding me, just like
the lyric says, as I walkthrough this difficult season,
and many of you through yours, Iwant to remember the
faithfulness of God, even whenit doesn't feel like it.
There's no better place to findthat than in the Psalms.
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I grabbed my Bible just nowbecause I needed to be reminded
of what I had forgotten, andthrough the lens of my tears, I
found that Psalms 34, 18, theLord is close to the broken
heart and saves those who arecrushed in spirit.
If any of you are like me,sometimes this verse doesn't
feel true.
Sometimes the valleys are solow and you feel like you're
there all alone and nobody evencares if you ever get out of the
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depth of your sorrow and grief.
In those times, we all have achoice.
We all have a lot of choices,actually, but the main one we
have is this Do we believe thatGod is God or don't we?
Do we believe him when he tellsus to draw near to him and he
will draw near to us, as we seein James 4, 8?
God is nothing but faithful.
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He has never changed and henever will.
Perhaps it is the darkness ofthis world that makes us
question everything we've everknown to be true, and I want you
to answer this question, and Iwill too.
Has anyone been a moresteadfast help in trouble for
you than God?
Some of you may be like me andyou see comments online like
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this If there is a God, why dobabies die?
Why are there murders, cancerand death?
I have that answer, but I don'tlike the answer, especially on
this day.
It seems trite.
Most of the time it does littleto soothe hurting people.
So I won't offer it herebecause, as I said, this is
family time and this real lifestruggle for all of us has an
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answer.
I can tell you from experience,as early as just 10 minutes ago
, that he is faithful to keephis promise to be near the
brokenhearted Sunday.
Our pastor spoke on Psalm 46.
Our pastor used a differenttranslation of Psalm 46, 10.
Most of us have memorized thatbe still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among theheathen.
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I will be exalted among theearth.
That's how I memorized it, buthe read it out, the Christian
Standard Bible, and I love howthe Christian Standard Bible
translated it Stop fighting andknow that I am God.
Say that again Stop fightingand know that I am God.
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Another translation says itlike this cease striving and
know that I am God.
I sat in my chair on Sunday,hoping the entire church did not
hear my sobs from the deepestpart of me, because, you see,
even people like me, who haveseen and proclaimed God's
faithfulness, have times ofdoubt and despair, and Sunday in
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church, I felt as low as I hadin a while, so tired of fighting
, so tired of striving, just sotired.
All I could do was watch mytears fall on the church floor.
I didn't even stand up for thefinal song.
How, how do I stop fighting?
How do I stop striving?
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How do I trust God and whydon't I trust him, with all of
the proof that he's given me allof my life?
And you can ask yourself thatsame question.
The answer is easy, though,because you see the battle, my
battle and your battle is notagainst flesh and blood, but
instead our battle is against anenemy who wants to destroy us.
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He doesn't want anybody gettingbehind microphones, platforms,
keyboards and proclaiming thegoodness and faithfulness of God
, despite all of his tricks touse our past and present hurts
to make us doubt God.
When you take the time tolisten to a podcast full of
scripture or anything that youput your hand to that advances
the kingdom of God, I canpromise you you will come under
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attack, leaving you to questioneverything you've ever believed,
just like the songs of lamentand the Bible, many of them from
David.
What do we do when he collectsall of our tears, when he binds
the broken hearts, but not fastenough?
I don't know about you.
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Clearly, I get behind amicrophone and talk about it
because I know in doing so Itake the power away from the
enemy, who wants to destroy me.
He does not want to see theredemption of the years that the
locusts have stolen.
He wants me in despair.
He wants you in despair.
That the locusts have stolen,he wants me in despair.
He wants you in despair.
He wants us hanging out in thevalley, believing the lie that
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we are alone and have to fendfor ourselves Because, you see,
the lies are so much louder thanthe truth.
Do you know that you have thesame enemy?
His favorite place to hang outis in the dark, but we know in
our hearts, in and our headsthat Jesus is the light, and
that light is so bright that thedarkness cannot overtake it.
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But that doesn't stop our enemyfrom trying to engage us in a
battle we have already won.
Did you hear me?
We already won it.
So I'm here to remind you thatthat battle does not belong to
you.
It does not belong to me.
The message version of SecondChronicles 2015 says it this way
the war is God's, not yours.
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Feels like a war right now,doesn't it?
So why do we try to fight a warthat isn't ours?
For most of us, the hardestpart is in the waiting, the time
when it doesn't feel like he'sfighting for us.
But he is.
We are not alone, and plenty ofBible verses promise us that.
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Joseph comes to mind when Ithink of someone who could have
wondered if God would fight forhim.
God had fought for him over andover and at the end of it all,
he put all the pain, the depthand despair squarely on the
shoulders of the personresponsible for all the lies.
We all know the story of Josephand the trials that he endured,
and we all know the famousverse you meant it for evil, god
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meant it for good.
What is that in your life rightnow?
I know what it is in mine and Ineeded to be reminded that
Satan has meant this for evil,but God will turn it into good,
either on this side of heaven oron the other side of heaven.
If there's one thing I know, isthat I can't give you any hope
without the hope of thecompleted work of Jesus on the
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cross.
I know what many of you think ofGod, because you blame him for
your pain, but I have tried itthe other way.
It doesn't work and it landsyou in deeper despair than you
already feel.
Seek him, he will be found.
Cry out to him, he will answer.
I don't know how he will dothat in my life right now, but I
know without a shadow of adoubt that he is so, so faithful
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.
We see his faithfulnessthroughout history, especially
in the book of Psalms.
So what does God need from usright now?
He needs that childlike faithin him that it be okay and that
nothing can take him away fromus or us away from him, even in
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the darkest dungeons of ourlives.
No one can take God from you.
Will you join me on this day?
Call out to him he is ourever-present help in trouble.
It is my prayer that today,whoever needed this podcast
episode will feel the envelopedlove of Jesus surround you and
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let him extinguish the darkness.
And, for those of you where itseems like it is going to be
dark for a season, cling to himlike the life preserver he is.
I know I am.
Try it this week.
Stop fighting, know he is God.
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It is March, the 1st of 2022.
In the last couple days, Isimply have not been able to get
out of my mind the importanceof protecting my peace as the
events of the world unfold.
I think it's also important foryou, my trauma tribe those who
love us and even just citizensof the world to understand the
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importance of protecting ourpeace.
So let's step into the healingzone as I attempt to talk with
you about how I am attempting toregulate my own nervous system,
some things I am doing toprotect my peace and the
importance of doing that for allof us.
So let's step into the healingzone as we attempt to do that.
Today, I stood in my kitchenand I was pacing because my
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hands were shaking and after the12th phone call, I was out of
energy, I was out of tears and Iwas out of the ability to speak
another single word.
Because, you see, after the12th person on those phone calls
that I had to tell they nolonger had a job, I just dropped
my phone and tears began toflow and I began wondering what
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my life would look like, as Iwas convinced that I had lost a
26-year career.
The Wednesdays with Watsonpodcast has listenership all
over the world, including muchof Eastern Europe.
Civil unrest has rocked ourworlds and many of us find
ourselves paralyzed, unable tomove, because you see, guys,
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it's all too much.
We simply were not created tobear such global trauma and
civil unrest.
It touches the very core of ourfears.
We long for safety within notjust our families but our
communities.
As an American, perhaps theevents in Europe are a little
less scary because we watch themunfold from the safety of our
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homes, often on huge flat-screenTV hung on walls of homes that
many in the world cannot evendream of having Yet for me, a
complex post-traumatic stressdisorder patient.
My world is rocked, my brain isfull and I am out of tears.
Watching the world fall apartis scary, and many of us need
help navigating some of theseuncertain and scary waters.
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Besides fear, a prominentemotion is that of empathy for
those who have suffered and whoare suffering.
And if we are not careful,empathy alone can serve as a
fray in the fabric of our beings, and empathy overload can and
will take us to places we don'twant to go, and the road back is
so, so difficult.
So how, then, shall we live,not only those with PTSD, but as
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citizens of the world?
How do we live in a world thatis not safe?
How do we continue to thrivedespite all of it, and how can
we protect our peace?
Because, you see, peace isessential and without it, all of
us are living subpar lives, andyou better believe that our
bodies are keeping the score.
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In his book, take your Life Back, john Eldredge suggests a few
ways we can protect our peace.
Eldredge released this bookprior to the pandemic, but it
has become a staple for many ofus as the principle of taking
our lives back from the thingsthat steal our peace is a
welcome principle, a welcometruth, and one that I hope that
I can help you do today.
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I love the lyrics to the oldRebecca St James song On my
Knees, my favorite lyric.
I don't know how, but there ispower when I'm on my knees.
I do find it ironic thatEldridge and his people created
an app to go along with a bookthat is imploring us to walk
away from our phones and takeour lives back.
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But a large premise of the bookis just that walk away from all
the information that sits inthat computer in your pocket.
It has been said that we arewalking around with more
powerful computers in our pocketthan it took to send the first
space shuttle into space.
The average person picks uptheir phone 80 times a day.
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That means we have real-timeglobal information at the tips
of our fingers at all times.
The only thing separating usfrom this information is perhaps
some willpower and theoccasional dead phone battery.
Eldridge notes that our brainsare not meant to receive massive
amounts of information fromthose computers in our pockets.
We tax our brains and, sincethat is ground zero for our
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entire beings, consuming toomuch information about anything
is going to place us in a spotwhere our peace is not protected
, our mind can't rest and thefallout is real.
Years ago, rick Warren suggestedthis about our cell phones
Divert daily, put your phoneaway, usually for an hour a day,
withdraw weekly.
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This one is a little bit moredifficult.
It's a day that we set ourphones aside where we have
minimal screen time and finallyabandon annually for an entire
week.
That is a difficult thing to do, but I have successfully done
this for two years now andduring those times I find my
heart more at peace and my timebetter spent intentionally
caring for myself and my nervoussystem better spent
intentionally caring for myselfand my nervous system.
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My brain is not taxed and I ama better version of myself, with
PTSD often in its place at bay,and my body thanks me.
This concept of protecting yourpeace with intentionality to
not consume the news is one thatI promise will help you as it
has me.
Put your phone down and youwill protect your peace.
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Secondly, eldridge suggests aconcept called benevolent
attachment.
This is the concept ofseparating ourselves from the
events in the world that are notours to carry.
Eldridge speaks of a bunchabout soul care and how our
souls are not meant to carry theburdens of the entire world.
We are simply not wired to doso, and empathy overload is a
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thing, and it is a thing thatwill not be ignored.
And so, for the PTSD patient,this concept of letting go of
that which is not ours isparamount, and the ability to
make the decision alone isevidence of healing.
We want to protect that healing, and so we must know when to
detach from those things thatare not ours, and I'm finding
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that is most things in thisworld.
Again, I am reminded of thepower that I have when I am on
my knees.
It is not lost on me that mostpeople suffering from PTSD had
their power stripped from themat one point, and we have the
ability to gain it back byholding an audience with God,
the only one who can fix any ofthis.
That truth alone can cause someconfusion, but I promise you,
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while your faith is hard to find, you can borrow mine.
Peace from the star of thestory is real.
He promises that if we drawnear to him, he will draw near
to us.
We see that in Hebrews 12.1.
This is especially true in themidst of crisis internally and
globally.
Typically, if you're living withtrauma and are an empath,
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breaking news from around theworld serves to trigger you and
make you deeply sad.
If you are like me and sufferfrom PTSD or any of its friends,
I beg you to be mindful of theinformation you're consuming,
not just from your phone, butfrom other news sources as well.
Let's talk about how consumingdisturbing global news impacts
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those of us with trauma.
I am of the belief thatconsuming the news steals
everyone's peace, butparticularly those of us with
trauma.
What happens to us when wewatch these things playing out,
literally, sometimes in realtime, right in front of us?
There is a psychological conceptcalled vicarious trauma.
One source quotes vicarioustrauma as a process of change
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resulting from empatheticengagement with trauma survivors
.
Anyone who gaugesempathetically with survivors of
trauma, incidences of tortureand material related to trauma
is potentially affected.
Another publication calls thisrepeated exposure to adverse
details of traumatic events.
That is equal to the news guys.
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This term is often used interms of the context of
therapists taking on the traumaof their patients.
So we know absorbing the traumaof others is a real issue, and
you can see why repeatedexposure to dramatic global
events can be detrimental to anyof us, especially those of us
with existing trauma.
The symptoms of this vicarioustrauma are broken into five
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categories, and I wonder howmany of these are familiar to
you.
Trauma are broken into fivecategories, and I wonder how
many of these are familiar toyou Persistent feelings of grief
, anxiety and sadness,irritability and anger, being
easily distracted, changes inmood and sense of humor, and
feeling isolated and unsafe.
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If you're experiencing thesethings, it's time to pay
attention, it's time to make achange Again.
You were not made to consumesuch relentless sadness, death
and destruction.
Furthermore, we are allimpotent when it comes to
changing some of these occurringevents, and so, again, I ask
how then, shall we live?
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What about those of us that feelthe need for information so
that we won't be blindsided withall the bad news at once?
I know this is something that Istruggle with.
Sometimes, not knowing can feelworse than consuming the
information.
I will tell you, it does takediscipline to put into practice,
but I promise you that notknowing is better than knowing.
You cannot unsee what you seeand you cannot unhear what you
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can hear.
I love that old song Be carefullittle eyes, what you see.
Be careful little ears what youhear.
Be careful little feet whereyou go.
So I have a trusted friend whokeeps me generally updated and
only provides information thatmay immediately affect my safety
.
Otherwise, ignorance is trulybliss for the trauma tribe, and
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when I do this, peace rules andmy body thanks me.
Thirdly, eldridge encourages usto get outside.
Making a concerted effort toget outside changes the subject,
engaging a different part ofyour brain.
As you scan your surroundingsfor beauty, your lungs get
filled with that much neededfresh air.
You're way, way more likely toconsume deep breaths of relief
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rather than the short breathsthat are indicative of your
activated nervous system.
While you're outside, if youcan tangibly touch the earth,
pick a flower, grab those weedsthat have been driving you crazy
, or get your toes in the sandand my favorite find a body of
water.
There I find peace, and while Irealize I live in a state
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surrounded by water, some of youhave mountains and others of
you have both.
Some of you have deserts.
All of it is gorgeous.
Either way, paying attention tobeauty of the earth restores
any peace that you have lost andalso adds to it.
Eldridge cites beauty hunting asa way to get our lives back,
and I could not agree more.
If you can get outside, atleast try to find a place where
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you can see outside, where youcan intentionally beauty hunt
and give your brain the rest andpeace it deserves.
Finally, eldridge gives uspermission to allow our souls to
be human.
This means it's okay to takethe one minute pause, it's okay
to detach yourself from sadnessthat is not yours and it's okay
to take time to get outside andlook for beauty of the world.
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Our souls need this and for thetrauma patient, your nervous
system will thank you.
No-transcript.
I know what you're thinking.
All of this sounds good intheory but more difficult to put
into real-life practice.
But we must.
It is essential.
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God did not create us to livein such activated states all the
time.
Jesus' completed work on thecross came at a heavy price for
him but a great benefit for us.
Jesus promised that we wouldhave trouble in this world in
Matthew 16.33, but he also toldus to take heart because he has
overcome the world.
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Do we really believe that?
He told us in Matthew 11, 28,that we can rest, that his yoke
is easy and that his burden islight?
He reminds us in 1 Peter 5, 7,to give him all of our burdens,
that he cares for us.
We also know that heunderstands our sufferings and
promises that it isn't fornothing.
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Romans 8 18 promises that thesuffering of this present world
are not worthy to be compared tothe glory that will be revealed
in us.
Often, we use these scripturalprinciples for ourselves and
forget, though, that thesepromises are also true for those
around the world for whom weempathize but must attach
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ourselves actively.
Realizing this is not a burdenwe can bear, but we can take it
to the star of the story,because he is the star of
everyone's story.
Protecting our peace in a worldthat is without it also requires
us to understand the concept ofrest, and right now you may
need more of it than you didbefore, and you must give
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yourself permission to rest.
So many times, those of us withPTSD, and any of its friends,
don't recognize rest as an issuethat we must pay attention to,
just as if we were physicallyill, to pay attention to just as
if we were physically ill.
Many times, we are lessguilt-ridden when we rest if the
doctor or a thermometer tellsus to do so, but what about when
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your trauma tells you to rest?
What about when the world'strauma has gotten you and
demands that you rest?
Because, you see, rest bringspeace.
I love Exodus 14, 14,.
You be still.
I will fight your battles foryou, and so I hope that you will
take time today to take care ofyour mental health.
Protect your peace by gettingyour life back.
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Keep your peace by handing itback to the one that it belongs
to anyway the Prince of Peaceand the reason that we can have
it.
Finally, remember the promisesof Isaiah 43.
Go read it.
I promise you'll be encouraged.
You are not alone and you neverwill be.
While this world seemsunbearable, know that we have
been given everything that weneed to not just survive but
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thrive.
It is my prayer those of youout there who are suffering or
have lost your peace will takelife back and hand it to the
King of the world, who knows youbetter than you know yourself.
He loves you and he loves me asall the people in the world
that are suffering.
We don't understand suffering,but we understand the truth of
Romans 12, 12.
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Be joyful in hope, patient inaffliction and faithful in
prayer.
I know there are those of youwho do not share my faith in the
star of the story, the one thatgave his life so that we can
have the peace that passes allunderstanding.
If you would like to get toknow him, I would like to help
you.
Just press that contact Amybutton in the show notes.
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I do not get behind this micwith this message today and
pretend any of it is easy, but Ido know that practicing some of
these things will help us getour peace back and it will help
us protect our peace.
Whether it is your traumaspeaking or you're at critical
mass with the sadness of theworld, it is imperative that we
all hand it over to the one thatcan and is perfecting all that
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is concerning not only us butthe citizens of the world.
So, before you pick up thatcomputer in your pocket or you
consume the news from around theworld, think twice and protect
your peace and know that it ispromised to you in Isaiah 26, 3,
where the Bible says I willkeep him in perfect peace, whose
mind has stayed on thee,because he trusts in me.
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Do you trust him?
If not, my prayer is that youwill and that you will live in
peace.
Do you trust him?
If not, my prayer is that youwill and that you will live in
peace, protected as a valuablecommodity, that it is
remembering the heavy priceJesus paid so that we could have
it.
And as we are tempted to indicthim for the sufferings of the
world, we remember again that hepromised this suffering in John
, chapter 16, but that he alsopromised to be our ever-present
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help in trouble.
In Psalms, he promised that wecan hide under the shadow of his
wings in Psalm 91, under thecleft of the rock, and again, an
ever-present help in trouble.
Draw near to him.
Today, guys, he is waiting withopen arms for your exhausted
self to collapse into his armsand as you are there, he reminds
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you by his scars that he is notunfamiliar with these
sufferings.
Run to the Father, y'all.
It is hope, hope and peace willroll your heart and mind and
you will then realize theabundant life, in spite of
circumstances.
I promise it's true.
Y'all, give it a try.
Take your life back, protectyour peace and be sure to share
it with others.
And one more thing, and this isthe reason you should always
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protect your peace.
Here it is.
You know it by now.
You are seen, you are known,you are heard, you are loved,
you are valued.
Everyone in the world is all ofthose things, and when we draw
near to the cross, we aredrawing near to the one that
longs to give us comfort.
He wants us to give him ourcares.
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He asks for them, he can handlethem because he cares for you
and he cares for those for whomour hearts break.
Finally, remember, your truepower comes on your knees in the
war room.
Speaking of that, if I can prayfor you in any way, it would be
my honor to do that.
Just hit that contact Amybutton and let me know, and I
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will definitely be in prayer foryou Every hour, every day.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
Every moment, every way.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
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Oh, that will never change.
You're a fortress.
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You're my hiding place.
You're the shelter where I amsafe.
You have freed me.
You have called me by name, myredeemer, my saving grace.
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Every hour of every day, oh, Ineed you, lord, and that will
never change.
Every moment, in every way.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
We'll be right back.
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Care for my heart, father andfriend, there, till the end you
are faithful, oh God, oh, andfaithful, that's who you are,
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more than able To care for myheart, father and friend there.
To the end you are faithful, ohGod, and every hour, oh God,
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and every hour and every day, oh, I need you, lord, and that
will never change.
And every moment, in every way,oh I need it, lord, and that
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will never change.
Oh, that will never change.
Yeah, that will never change.
Oh, that will never change.
Hey everybody and welcome to the Wednesdays with
Watson podcast.
It is October of 2024.
And I had two separate episodesplanned for you today.
One of them we were going tostart our generational trauma
series, starting with the silentgeneration, but then we had
Hurricane Helene, which, ofcourse, has devastated a good
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portion of the Southeast.
We're going to talk about howto navigate that.
While en route to writing andrecording that episode, however,
we have another hurricane,hurricane Milton, headed
straight for Florida andstraight for us, and so my
producer and her just her joyand her passion for bringing
something to you guys every twoweeks has put together this
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compilation of a coupledifferent episodes that we did
to help us navigate some of thethings that we're going through.
I will be back in two weeks.
I don't know what that willlook like, honestly.
This hurricane is headedstraight for Florida and, in
particular, straight for thewest coast of Florida, where I
live.
I will be back at some pointand we will talk about how to
navigate disaster, but know thateven if you are not affected,
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if you are feeling all the feelsand struggling through this,
this is very normal and we'lltalk about how we can get
through this together.
But until then, until I can getback to you, hopefully in two
weeks, please enjoy thiscompilation that Amy Hyland, my
excellent producer, has puttogether for you.
If you are in the Southeast,particularly if you're under the
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sound of my voice and you're inthe western half of Florida,
the west coast of Florida, myprayer for you is that you will
be safe and that this hurricanewill not affect us, as it
appears that it may.
Until then, you guys know whatI'm going to say.
You are seen, you are known,you are heard, you are loved and
so, so valued.
Lord, I'm tired, so tired fromwalking and, lord, I'm so alone
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and, lord, the dark is creepingin, it's creeping in to swallow
me.
I think I'll stop and rest herefor a while, because this is
all that I can say right now.
This is all that I can give.
That's my everything.
Lord, didn't you see me cryingand didn't you hear me call your
name?
Wasn't it you that I gave myheart to?
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I wish you'd remember where yousat it down, because this is
all that I can say right now.
I know it's not much.
This is all that I can give,this is my everything.
This is all that I could sayright now I know it's not much,
but this is all that I can give,because this is my everything.
I didn't notice you werestanding here.
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I didn't know that it was youthat was holding me.
I didn't notice that you werecrying too.
I didn't know that it was youthat was washing my feet.
Because this is all that I cansay right now.
I know it's not much.
This is all that I can give.
This is my everything.
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This is all that I can give.
This is my everything.
This is all that I can sayright now.
This is my everything.
If the Psalms were still beingwritten today, this song by
David Crowder would be included.
I feel these lyrics deeply onthis day, and in a year, one
that has been difficult at best,this is all I can give Feels
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very real on this day, so I'mgoing to attempt to do that for
you today.
It feels like nothing that Ihave to offer to God or to you
by any way at this podcastepisode will be okay.
Right before I sat down towrite this episode, I sent a
text to my producer telling herwhat an imposter I felt like,
because I am a mental healthadvocate and in this difficult
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season, I seemingly haveforgotten all of my coping
skills and I find myself dealingwith tears that I did not
invite and won't leave.
They were like an unwelcomeguest sent to clean out
something I thought was alreadyclean.
And so I ask, as David Crowderdid in this song, lord, don't
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you see me crying?
And then I remember it is himthat is holding me, just like
the lyric says, as I walkthrough this difficult season,
and many of you through yours, Iwant to remember the
faithfulness of God, even whenit doesn't feel like it.
There's no better place to findthat than in the Psalms.
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I grabbed my Bible just nowbecause I needed to be reminded
of what I had forgotten, andthrough the lens of my tears, I
found that Psalms 34, 18, theLord is close to the broken
heart and saves those who arecrushed in spirit.
If any of you are like me,sometimes this verse doesn't
feel true.
Sometimes the valleys are solow and you feel like you're
there all alone and nobody evencares if you ever get out of the
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depth of your sorrow and grief.
In those times, we all have achoice.
We all have a lot of choices,actually, but the main one we
have is this Do we believe thatGod is God or don't we?
Do we believe him when he tellsus to draw near to him and he
will draw near to us, as we seein James 4, 8?
God is nothing but faithful.
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He has never changed and henever will.
Perhaps it is the darkness ofthis world that makes us
question everything we've everknown to be true, and I want you
to answer this question, and Iwill too.
Has anyone been a moresteadfast help in trouble for
you than God?
Some of you may be like me andyou see comments online like
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this If there is a God, why dobabies die?
Why are there murders, cancerand death?
I have that answer, but I don'tlike the answer, especially on
this day.
It seems trite.
Most of the time it does littleto soothe hurting people.
So I won't offer it herebecause, as I said, this is
family time and this real lifestruggle for all of us has an
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answer.
I can tell you from experience,as early as just 10 minutes ago
, that he is faithful to keephis promise to be near the
brokenhearted Sunday.
Our pastor spoke on Psalm 46.
Our pastor used a differenttranslation of Psalm 46, 10.
Most of us have memorized thatbe still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among theheathen.
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I will be exalted among theearth.
That's how I memorized it, buthe read it out, the Christian
Standard Bible, and I love howthe Christian Standard Bible
translated it Stop fighting andknow that I am God.
Say that again Stop fightingand know that I am God.
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Another translation says itlike this cease striving and
know that I am God.
I sat in my chair on Sunday,hoping the entire church did not
hear my sobs from the deepestpart of me, because, you see,
even people like me, who haveseen and proclaimed God's
faithfulness, have times ofdoubt and despair, and Sunday in
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church, I felt as low as I hadin a while, so tired of fighting
, so tired of striving, just sotired.
All I could do was watch mytears fall on the church floor.
I didn't even stand up for thefinal song.
How, how do I stop fighting?
How do I stop striving?
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How do I trust God and whydon't I trust him, with all of
the proof that he's given me allof my life?
And you can ask yourself thatsame question.
The answer is easy, though,because you see the battle, my
battle and your battle is notagainst flesh and blood, but
instead our battle is against anenemy who wants to destroy us.
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He doesn't want anybody gettingbehind microphones, platforms,
keyboards and proclaiming thegoodness and faithfulness of God
, despite all of his tricks touse our past and present hurts
to make us doubt God.
When you take the time tolisten to a podcast full of
scripture or anything that youput your hand to that advances
the kingdom of God, I canpromise you you will come under
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attack, leaving you to questioneverything you've ever believed,
just like the songs of lamentand the Bible, many of them from
David.
What do we do when he collectsall of our tears, when he binds
the broken hearts, but not fastenough?
I don't know about you.
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Clearly, I get behind amicrophone and talk about it
because I know in doing so Itake the power away from the
enemy, who wants to destroy me.
He does not want to see theredemption of the years that the
locusts have stolen.
He wants me in despair.
He wants you in despair.
That the locusts have stolen,he wants me in despair.
He wants you in despair.
He wants us hanging out in thevalley, believing the lie that
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we are alone and have to fendfor ourselves Because, you see,
the lies are so much louder thanthe truth.
Do you know that you have thesame enemy?
His favorite place to hang outis in the dark, but we know in
our hearts, in and our headsthat Jesus is the light, and
that light is so bright that thedarkness cannot overtake it.
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But that doesn't stop our enemyfrom trying to engage us in a
battle we have already won.
Did you hear me?
We already won it.
So I'm here to remind you thatthat battle does not belong to
you.
It does not belong to me.
The message version of SecondChronicles 2015 says it this way
the war is God's, not yours.
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Feels like a war right now,doesn't it?
So why do we try to fight a warthat isn't ours?
For most of us, the hardestpart is in the waiting, the time
when it doesn't feel like he'sfighting for us.
But he is.
We are not alone, and plenty ofBible verses promise us that.
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Joseph comes to mind when Ithink of someone who could have
wondered if God would fight forhim.
God had fought for him over andover and at the end of it all,
he put all the pain, the depthand despair squarely on the
shoulders of the personresponsible for all the lies.
We all know the story of Josephand the trials that he endured,
and we all know the famousverse you meant it for evil, god
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meant it for good.
What is that in your life rightnow?
I know what it is in mine and Ineeded to be reminded that
Satan has meant this for evil,but God will turn it into good,
either on this side of heaven oron the other side of heaven.
If there's one thing I know, isthat I can't give you any hope
without the hope of thecompleted work of Jesus on the
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cross.
I know what many of you think ofGod, because you blame him for
your pain, but I have tried itthe other way.
It doesn't work and it landsyou in deeper despair than you
already feel.
Seek him, he will be found.
Cry out to him, he will answer.
I don't know how he will dothat in my life right now, but I
know without a shadow of adoubt that he is so, so faithful
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.
We see his faithfulnessthroughout history, especially
in the book of Psalms.
So what does God need from usright now?
He needs that childlike faithin him that it be okay and that
nothing can take him away fromus or us away from him, even in
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the darkest dungeons of ourlives.
No one can take God from you.
Will you join me on this day?
Call out to him he is ourever-present help in trouble.
It is my prayer that today,whoever needed this podcast
episode will feel the envelopedlove of Jesus surround you and
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let him extinguish the darkness.
And, for those of you where itseems like it is going to be
dark for a season, cling to himlike the life preserver he is.
I know I am.
Try it this week.
Stop fighting, know he is God.
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It is March, the 1st of 2022.
In the last couple days, Isimply have not been able to get
out of my mind the importanceof protecting my peace as the
events of the world unfold.
I think it's also important foryou, my trauma tribe those who
love us and even just citizensof the world to understand the
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importance of protecting ourpeace.
So let's step into the healingzone as I attempt to talk with
you about how I am attempting toregulate my own nervous system,
some things I am doing toprotect my peace and the
importance of doing that for allof us.
So let's step into the healingzone as we attempt to do that.
Today, I stood in my kitchenand I was pacing because my
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hands were shaking and after the12th phone call, I was out of
energy, I was out of tears and Iwas out of the ability to speak
another single word.
Because, you see, after the12th person on those phone calls
that I had to tell they nolonger had a job, I just dropped
my phone and tears began toflow and I began wondering what
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my life would look like, as Iwas convinced that I had lost a
26-year career.
The Wednesdays with Watsonpodcast has listenership all
over the world, including muchof Eastern Europe.
Civil unrest has rocked ourworlds and many of us find
ourselves paralyzed, unable tomove, because you see, guys,
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it's all too much.
We simply were not created tobear such global trauma and
civil unrest.
It touches the very core of ourfears.
We long for safety within notjust our families but our
communities.
As an American, perhaps theevents in Europe are a little
less scary because we watch themunfold from the safety of our
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homes, often on huge flat-screenTV hung on walls of homes that
many in the world cannot evendream of having Yet for me, a
complex post-traumatic stressdisorder patient.
My world is rocked, my brain isfull and I am out of tears.
Watching the world fall apartis scary, and many of us need
help navigating some of theseuncertain and scary waters.
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Besides fear, a prominentemotion is that of empathy for
those who have suffered and whoare suffering.
And if we are not careful,empathy alone can serve as a
fray in the fabric of our beings, and empathy overload can and
will take us to places we don'twant to go, and the road back is
so, so difficult.
So how, then, shall we live,not only those with PTSD, but as
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citizens of the world?
How do we live in a world thatis not safe?
How do we continue to thrivedespite all of it, and how can
we protect our peace?
Because, you see, peace isessential and without it, all of
us are living subpar lives, andyou better believe that our
bodies are keeping the score.
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In his book, take your Life Back, john Eldredge suggests a few
ways we can protect our peace.
Eldredge released this bookprior to the pandemic, but it
has become a staple for many ofus as the principle of taking
our lives back from the thingsthat steal our peace is a
welcome principle, a welcometruth, and one that I hope that
I can help you do today.
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I love the lyrics to the oldRebecca St James song On my
Knees, my favorite lyric.
I don't know how, but there ispower when I'm on my knees.
I do find it ironic thatEldridge and his people created
an app to go along with a bookthat is imploring us to walk
away from our phones and takeour lives back.
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But a large premise of the bookis just that walk away from all
the information that sits inthat computer in your pocket.
It has been said that we arewalking around with more
powerful computers in our pocketthan it took to send the first
space shuttle into space.
The average person picks uptheir phone 80 times a day.
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That means we have real-timeglobal information at the tips
of our fingers at all times.
The only thing separating usfrom this information is perhaps
some willpower and theoccasional dead phone battery.
Eldridge notes that our brainsare not meant to receive massive
amounts of information fromthose computers in our pockets.
We tax our brains and, sincethat is ground zero for our
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entire beings, consuming toomuch information about anything
is going to place us in a spotwhere our peace is not protected
, our mind can't rest and thefallout is real.
Years ago, rick Warren suggestedthis about our cell phones
Divert daily, put your phoneaway, usually for an hour a day,
withdraw weekly.
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This one is a little bit moredifficult.
It's a day that we set ourphones aside where we have
minimal screen time and finallyabandon annually for an entire
week.
That is a difficult thing to do, but I have successfully done
this for two years now andduring those times I find my
heart more at peace and my timebetter spent intentionally
caring for myself and my nervoussystem better spent
intentionally caring for myselfand my nervous system.
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My brain is not taxed and I ama better version of myself, with
PTSD often in its place at bay,and my body thanks me.
This concept of protecting yourpeace with intentionality to
not consume the news is one thatI promise will help you as it
has me.
Put your phone down and youwill protect your peace.
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Secondly, eldridge suggests aconcept called benevolent
attachment.
This is the concept ofseparating ourselves from the
events in the world that are notours to carry.
Eldridge speaks of a bunchabout soul care and how our
souls are not meant to carry theburdens of the entire world.
We are simply not wired to doso, and empathy overload is a
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thing, and it is a thing thatwill not be ignored.
And so, for the PTSD patient,this concept of letting go of
that which is not ours isparamount, and the ability to
make the decision alone isevidence of healing.
We want to protect that healing, and so we must know when to
detach from those things thatare not ours, and I'm finding
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that is most things in thisworld.
Again, I am reminded of thepower that I have when I am on
my knees.
It is not lost on me that mostpeople suffering from PTSD had
their power stripped from themat one point, and we have the
ability to gain it back byholding an audience with God,
the only one who can fix any ofthis.
That truth alone can cause someconfusion, but I promise you,
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while your faith is hard to find, you can borrow mine.
Peace from the star of thestory is real.
He promises that if we drawnear to him, he will draw near
to us.
We see that in Hebrews 12.1.
This is especially true in themidst of crisis internally and
globally.
Typically, if you're living withtrauma and are an empath,
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breaking news from around theworld serves to trigger you and
make you deeply sad.
If you are like me and sufferfrom PTSD or any of its friends,
I beg you to be mindful of theinformation you're consuming,
not just from your phone, butfrom other news sources as well.
Let's talk about how consumingdisturbing global news impacts
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those of us with trauma.
I am of the belief thatconsuming the news steals
everyone's peace, butparticularly those of us with
trauma.
What happens to us when wewatch these things playing out,
literally, sometimes in realtime, right in front of us?
There is a psychological conceptcalled vicarious trauma.
One source quotes vicarioustrauma as a process of change
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resulting from empatheticengagement with trauma survivors
.
Anyone who gaugesempathetically with survivors of
trauma, incidences of tortureand material related to trauma
is potentially affected.
Another publication calls thisrepeated exposure to adverse
details of traumatic events.
That is equal to the news guys.
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This term is often used interms of the context of
therapists taking on the traumaof their patients.
So we know absorbing the traumaof others is a real issue, and
you can see why repeatedexposure to dramatic global
events can be detrimental to anyof us, especially those of us
with existing trauma.
The symptoms of this vicarioustrauma are broken into five
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categories, and I wonder howmany of these are familiar to
you.
Trauma are broken into fivecategories, and I wonder how
many of these are familiar toyou Persistent feelings of grief
, anxiety and sadness,irritability and anger, being
easily distracted, changes inmood and sense of humor, and
feeling isolated and unsafe.
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If you're experiencing thesethings, it's time to pay
attention, it's time to make achange Again.
You were not made to consumesuch relentless sadness, death
and destruction.
Furthermore, we are allimpotent when it comes to
changing some of these occurringevents, and so, again, I ask
how then, shall we live?
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What about those of us that feelthe need for information so
that we won't be blindsided withall the bad news at once?
I know this is something that Istruggle with.
Sometimes, not knowing can feelworse than consuming the
information.
I will tell you, it does takediscipline to put into practice,
but I promise you that notknowing is better than knowing.
You cannot unsee what you seeand you cannot unhear what you
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can hear.
I love that old song Be carefullittle eyes, what you see.
Be careful little ears what youhear.
Be careful little feet whereyou go.
So I have a trusted friend whokeeps me generally updated and
only provides information thatmay immediately affect my safety
.
Otherwise, ignorance is trulybliss for the trauma tribe, and
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when I do this, peace rules andmy body thanks me.
Thirdly, eldridge encourages usto get outside.
Making a concerted effort toget outside changes the subject,
engaging a different part ofyour brain.
As you scan your surroundingsfor beauty, your lungs get
filled with that much neededfresh air.
You're way, way more likely toconsume deep breaths of relief
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rather than the short breathsthat are indicative of your
activated nervous system.
While you're outside, if youcan tangibly touch the earth,
pick a flower, grab those weedsthat have been driving you crazy
, or get your toes in the sandand my favorite find a body of
water.
There I find peace, and while Irealize I live in a state
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surrounded by water, some of youhave mountains and others of
you have both.
Some of you have deserts.
All of it is gorgeous.
Either way, paying attention tobeauty of the earth restores
any peace that you have lost andalso adds to it.
Eldridge cites beauty hunting asa way to get our lives back,
and I could not agree more.
If you can get outside, atleast try to find a place where
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you can see outside, where youcan intentionally beauty hunt
and give your brain the rest andpeace it deserves.
Finally, eldridge gives uspermission to allow our souls to
be human.
This means it's okay to takethe one minute pause, it's okay
to detach yourself from sadnessthat is not yours and it's okay
to take time to get outside andlook for beauty of the world.
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Our souls need this and for thetrauma patient, your nervous
system will thank you.
No-transcript.
I know what you're thinking.
All of this sounds good intheory but more difficult to put
into real-life practice.
But we must.
It is essential.
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God did not create us to livein such activated states all the
time.
Jesus' completed work on thecross came at a heavy price for
him but a great benefit for us.
Jesus promised that we wouldhave trouble in this world in
Matthew 16.33, but he also toldus to take heart because he has
overcome the world.
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Do we really believe that?
He told us in Matthew 11, 28,that we can rest, that his yoke
is easy and that his burden islight?
He reminds us in 1 Peter 5, 7,to give him all of our burdens,
that he cares for us.
We also know that heunderstands our sufferings and
promises that it isn't fornothing.
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Romans 8 18 promises that thesuffering of this present world
are not worthy to be compared tothe glory that will be revealed
in us.
Often, we use these scripturalprinciples for ourselves and
forget, though, that thesepromises are also true for those
around the world for whom weempathize but must attach
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ourselves actively.
Realizing this is not a burdenwe can bear, but we can take it
to the star of the story,because he is the star of
everyone's story.
Protecting our peace in a worldthat is without it also requires
us to understand the concept ofrest, and right now you may
need more of it than you didbefore, and you must give
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yourself permission to rest.
So many times, those of us withPTSD, and any of its friends,
don't recognize rest as an issuethat we must pay attention to,
just as if we were physicallyill, to pay attention to just as
if we were physically ill.
Many times, we are lessguilt-ridden when we rest if the
doctor or a thermometer tellsus to do so, but what about when
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your trauma tells you to rest?
What about when the world'strauma has gotten you and
demands that you rest?
Because, you see, rest bringspeace.
I love Exodus 14, 14,.
You be still.
I will fight your battles foryou, and so I hope that you will
take time today to take care ofyour mental health.
Protect your peace by gettingyour life back.
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Keep your peace by handing itback to the one that it belongs
to anyway the Prince of Peaceand the reason that we can have
it.
Finally, remember the promisesof Isaiah 43.
Go read it.
I promise you'll be encouraged.
You are not alone and you neverwill be.
While this world seemsunbearable, know that we have
been given everything that weneed to not just survive but
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thrive.
It is my prayer those of youout there who are suffering or
have lost your peace will takelife back and hand it to the
King of the world, who knows youbetter than you know yourself.
He loves you and he loves me asall the people in the world
that are suffering.
We don't understand suffering,but we understand the truth of
Romans 12, 12.
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Be joyful in hope, patient inaffliction and faithful in
prayer.
I know there are those of youwho do not share my faith in the
star of the story, the one thatgave his life so that we can
have the peace that passes allunderstanding.
If you would like to get toknow him, I would like to help
you.
Just press that contact Amybutton in the show notes.
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I do not get behind this micwith this message today and
pretend any of it is easy, but Ido know that practicing some of
these things will help us getour peace back and it will help
us protect our peace.
Whether it is your traumaspeaking or you're at critical
mass with the sadness of theworld, it is imperative that we
all hand it over to the one thatcan and is perfecting all that
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is concerning not only us butthe citizens of the world.
So, before you pick up thatcomputer in your pocket or you
consume the news from around theworld, think twice and protect
your peace and know that it ispromised to you in Isaiah 26, 3,
where the Bible says I willkeep him in perfect peace, whose
mind has stayed on thee,because he trusts in me.
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Do you trust him?
If not, my prayer is that youwill and that you will live in
peace.
Do you trust him?
If not, my prayer is that youwill and that you will live in
peace, protected as a valuablecommodity, that it is
remembering the heavy priceJesus paid so that we could have
it.
And as we are tempted to indicthim for the sufferings of the
world, we remember again that hepromised this suffering in John
, chapter 16, but that he alsopromised to be our ever-present
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help in trouble.
In Psalms, he promised that wecan hide under the shadow of his
wings in Psalm 91, under thecleft of the rock, and again, an
ever-present help in trouble.
Draw near to him.
Today, guys, he is waiting withopen arms for your exhausted
self to collapse into his armsand as you are there, he reminds
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you by his scars that he is notunfamiliar with these
sufferings.
Run to the Father, y'all.
It is hope, hope and peace willroll your heart and mind and
you will then realize theabundant life, in spite of
circumstances.
I promise it's true.
Y'all, give it a try.
Take your life back, protectyour peace and be sure to share
it with others.
And one more thing, and this isthe reason you should always
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protect your peace.
Here it is.
You know it by now.
You are seen, you are known,you are heard, you are loved,
you are valued.
Everyone in the world is all ofthose things, and when we draw
near to the cross, we aredrawing near to the one that
longs to give us comfort.
He wants us to give him ourcares.
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He asks for them, he can handlethem because he cares for you
and he cares for those for whomour hearts break.
Finally, remember, your truepower comes on your knees in the
war room.
Speaking of that, if I can prayfor you in any way, it would be
my honor to do that.
Just hit that contact Amybutton and let me know, and I
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will definitely be in prayer foryou Every hour, every day.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
Every moment, every way.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
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Oh, that will never change.
You're a fortress.
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You're my hiding place.
You're the shelter where I amsafe.
You have freed me.
You have called me by name, myredeemer, my saving grace.
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Every hour of every day, oh, Ineed you, lord, and that will
never change.
Every moment, in every way.
Oh, I need you, lord, and thatwill never change.
We'll be right back.
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Care for my heart, father andfriend, there, till the end you
are faithful, oh God, oh, andfaithful, that's who you are,
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more than able To care for myheart, father and friend there.
To the end you are faithful, ohGod, and every hour, oh God,
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and every hour and every day, oh, I need you, lord, and that
will never change.
And every moment, in every way,oh I need it, lord, and that
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will never change.
Oh, that will never change.
Yeah, that will never change.
Oh, that will never change.
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