There is an age-old term that has now become more relevant.

That word is triggered.

When someone says they're triggered, it means I was here and though I was here physically,

my mind, my spirit is snatched back to an experience that I had that most of the time

is traumatic.

So most of us have two different angles at how we handle our triggers.

I could avoid the trigger or I could dare to turn around and confront the trigger so

that the trigger no longer dictates who I am.

Sometimes God allows us to be triggered not because He wants to remind us of what we

went through, but because you have a testimony now that you did not have then.

Some triggers I meant to help you go back and get the pieces of yourself that you thought

you would never get back again.

There are some moments where in order to truly heal, you do need to avoid the triggers

that keep pulling you back.

What I learned is that a trigger in the mechanical sense is a mechanism that actuates the function

of arranged weapon such as a firearm, air gun, crossbow or spear gun.

The trigger is a mechanism that actuates the function.

So when we look at it from the psychological standpoint and we look at it from the mechanical

standpoint, what we have is that a trigger actuates the function of the weapon.

It actsuates the function of that experience.

The fear connected to it is now activated because I have been triggered.

Whatever you experience, whatever function it had in your life when you're triggered,

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