I totally agree with you and your feelings about Ukraine. I think what it is for me is that I wanted to help but I didn't know how. I would pray for the Ukrainians every night and God must have heard my prayers. In my 6-year-old granddaughter's first grade class (5 states away) a few months after the invasion, a little Ukrainian girl was put in her class. Her name was Sophia (tug at my heart as my late mom's name was Sophia and she was of Ukrainian descent). Sophia spoke zero English and cried every day for weeks at school and through her interpreter kept saying "I want to go back to Ukraine! I want to go home!" Of course, that was impossible. I talked to my granddaughter and her teacher via Zoom and came up with a plan to help Sophia to acclimate to her new country. I am a retired French teacher so languages are my strong suit. I learned some Ukrainian words and did a Zoom session for 5 minutes twice a week with Sophia's class. I wanted to bring them into her world. I sent the class pins with an American flag and Ukrainian flag joined for them to put on their bookbags. I sent a book that I had read to my daughters when they were little called "The Littlest Matroyska" about what it feels like when things change and all of a sudden you feel lost but finally you find your way....along with a nesting doll for Sophia to keep. This is not about me giving because in actuality, I was the receiver. I received the joy of giving and hopefully showing my own 6-year-old granddaughter that giving is the best gift ever.

@tloof2370

3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@UnashamedCaliforniagirl

3 ай бұрын

that is a beautiful story so sad that it started with a little girl not understanding why she can't just " go home".❤❤❤

@LimeyRedneck

3 ай бұрын

💜

@judybaker5282

3 ай бұрын

There are many charities, the one started by the President of Ukraine is United 24.

You've taken on a big load Rev. Ed. May God Bless you

@janetlynch5804

3 ай бұрын

You are stronger than I brother

I've been more upset than usual about what happened to Nex, and that horrible man who calls lgbtqia "filth" has angered me so much. I'm a 62 year old ace person. All my life I knew I was different but didn't have anyone to talk to, and we really didn't have the words back in the 1970s when I was a teenager. I was in my 50s when someone suggested that I'm asexual. When I read about it, I cried. There's the answers I've needed all my life! This is also why school libraries NEED to have age-appropriate books for lgbtqia students. One of the books being banned is about a young person going through all the confusion and mess I did as a teen, except I had nowhere to turn for answers. A book like that would have changed my life for the better! I never had a libido, and I'd be happy to never have sex again in my life. I learned about asexuality after my husband left me and moved in with his girlfriend because (as he said) "she puts out and I don't". I don't tell people that I'm ace because I don't think they'll understand. Thing is, most assume I'm lesbian because I wear men's clothes, don't wear makeup, and have a low voice. I hate going to malls, but love antique car shows and going to the hardware store. We didn't have words like "non-binary" when I was young, but if I understood back then what I now understand about myself, I would have called myself non-binary. I've always felt somewhere in between male and female. I can't stop thinking about Nex, they were braver than me, and such a beautiful person whom I wish I could have known. Their life was just beginning.

@tloof2370

3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤. I am a straight white female the same age and like and dislike everything you just said. I however had the privilege of having gay male friends. They used to like dressing me up to bring out my feminine side. They would drag me through the mall and I would help them fix things in their place. We would go out partying and I would spend the night at their place. That was the safest I have ever felt in my life. I was loved and protected and sexuality had nothing to do with our friendship. I am happy for you that you have found your happiness, everyone deserves that. Thank you for sharing your story, I hope it touches the life it is supposed to.❤

@tianikane3312

3 ай бұрын

Me2

@glorialewis8227

3 ай бұрын

Stay strong!

@LimeyRedneck

3 ай бұрын

💜

@mkrucker2736

3 ай бұрын

@LazyIRanch I hope you see how brave you are in your own way.

What you bring to us. Pastor Ed Trevor, is so Valuable! I am thankful for you! Hallelujah! (I know the Allelujahs are to be buried during Lent until Resurrection Day, though I simply am not able to bury them sometimes.) May the GIVER OF ALL GOOD, GIVE TO you ALL that is needful. You bring us Care that has a way of bringing out what is needful, maybe as in “Lazarus! Come Out!!!” Then MESSIAH YESHUA Tells those who are gathered, to Unbind Lazarus (from the cloth burial wraps in which he was entangled & held tightly within) & to Remove his grave clothes. Others are needed to help Free him. GOD IS THERE WHERE I AM HAS BROUGHT you, Pastor Ed Trevors to BE, as in the Sermon On The Mount with its BE-ATTITUDES our KING OF GLORY Brought to who we are. BE! And MESSIAH Will Heal & Liberate you & many to whom you Testify. Hallelujah!!! Hallow!

Rev Ed doing some great videos, Nex is a maryter for humanity and rights..I left a comment on some channel I said to the person you may need to go to the ER or a Doctor a gay person may save your life ..There are firefighters and paramedics that are LGBTQ there saving lives everyday...We have a gay person in city government she is a wonderful person doing a great job She was voted in three times..The Bullying and discrimination must stop.. Man sees the face God sees the heart..These people that called Nex filth Heavens closed to them. Funny thing some people think they know who gets to Heaven BUT ONLY GOD desides that.. God made Heaven not people.. God bless

Thank You, Rev. Ed.🙏🏼💙✌🏼💙✊🏼

That is how I felt on Jan 6th. I was frozen to my TV. I could not move. People who knew me best called or came to reassure me that facists were not going to steal our country that night but I still could not sleep until the reconvened that night.

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

That's how I felt when Reagan bombed Libiya in 1986. I stopped feeling good about anything, about what I was doing, about what anybody was doing, about the joys of living from which anything of value begins. The propaganda for this was also quite debilitating. And I couldn't accept mob-rule. Still can't. The My Lai Massacre did this to me in 1968. I waited years for the retaliative response which eventually came in 2001 but only as a cumulative response to many similar US initiated, anti-people politics all over the world since Hiroshima and the US' bullying and meddling interference in the politics and economies of countries, first in S. America and then all over the world.

As an Eastern European, I want to thank you for your solidarity with Ukraine. Regarding what you said about the "red scare", my country being on the other side of the Iron Curtain on the receiving end of Soviet policies... it wasn't all paranoia. Westerners conduct war with kid gloves, they care about laws of war. In the East, we wage wars medieval-style complete with pillaging, plundering, genocide, etc. The Geneva and Hague Conventions are... optional at best. I honestly believe many Russian soldiers have never even heard of those, let alone obey them. Our militaries were conscript armies and soldiers were abused from day 1 (in Russia they call this system "Dedovshchina"). Think of Soviet-style armies more like armed prison gangs, and less like organized, disciplined militaries. This changed in my country after 1989 (we joined NATO in 2004), but the Russian Army still functions by this logic. So imagine what a conquering armed prison gang would do to civilians in conquered areas, having absolute power and no one to stop them. You in the West were correct to expect the worst in case of an East-West war.

Amen 🙏 thank you ❤

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn.

@darwinskeeper421

3 ай бұрын

I only remember fight or flight.

@justicemcpherson928

3 ай бұрын

@@darwinskeeper421Those are the two that they acknowledged first - I can give an extremely uncharitable suggestion why. Freeze and Fawn are also responses to similar stuff.

@UnashamedCaliforniagirl

3 ай бұрын

I didn't know the other two existed until last year and I have at different times done all of the above

@GayleAllen-RINO

3 ай бұрын

fight, flight, hide... stop, drop, roll

Hello Reverend Ed!🎉

Usually "fight, flight or f... reproduce" but there's also flight, flight, or freeze.

I had a similar reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. Never felt in danger myself but I glued myself to any new source I could. KZread, live maps, aid packages, Intel leaks, anything. Everything. It got to the point where I recognized it was hurting me mentally and had to quit the internet altogether cold turkey for a week because even when I told myself I was only going to do something else I always found myself going back to the above. That was my experience as a guy born in the 90s, I can't imagine how much worse it would have been if I had the same childhood fears fed to me that you described in your childhood. My heart goes out to you for going through that rev, even if you are already over it.

Thank you so much. I am not sleeping well and my anxiety is ginning. I almost didn't attend Wednesday mass today, but I prayed and God pulled me through. Conflict is always a part of this world. I try to focus on what I can do for good in my tiny sphere. Mother Theresa said find your Calcutta. God's love, goodness, and grace is really the only dependable rock to grab hold of. We pull ourselves up by it and keep going.

Amen 👍👍👍👍👍

Stress? Yes I have stress. The World seems to be going to a bad place.

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

Hi c-fax. And how much of the stress is creating that "bad-place" and indeed culling it forth? Compromising the wondrous moment of now in order to be fearful for the future is a bad exchange. Love.

@contrafax

3 ай бұрын

@@howardcohen6817 my stress didn't call forth Trump...

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

@@contrafax I'm not sure if you're being serious or snarky, c-fax. I believe that our stress is making Trump outsized and is making the "dangers" he represents at all serious and acute. Without our stress, he is nothing and has no power.

@contrafax

3 ай бұрын

@@howardcohen6817 yeah, stress is killing me of responsible for so many governments going far right.

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

@@contrafax Our stress is Trump's supply making him important. This isn't to say that that which he (and others) has done shouldn't be encountered and - by encountering those things - block them, they are just are things to encounter and not things about which to be worried. See my zebra method.

O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit. Purify my heart. Illumine my powers. I lay all my affairs in Thy hand. Thou art my Guide and my Refuge. I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved; I will be a happy and joyful being. O God! I will no longer be full of anxiety, nor will I let trouble harass me. I will not dwell on the unpleasant things of life. O God! Thou art more friend to me than I am to myself. I dedicate myself to Thee, O Lord. -‘Abdu’l-Bahá

@ggbythesea9231

3 ай бұрын

🌎🕊🤲🏼

@tloof2370

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this prayer. I have found his prayers and look forward to reading them. This is the exact prayer I have needed for a long time

@AlsanPine

3 ай бұрын

@@tloof2370 another of my favorites from his father, these are love sonnets to God: From the sweet-scented streams of Thine eternity give me to drink, O my God, and of the fruits of the tree of Thy being enable me to taste, O my Hope! From the crystal springs of Thy love suffer me to quaff, O my Glory, and beneath the shadow of Thine everlasting providence let me abide, O my Light! Within the meadows of Thy nearness, before Thy presence, make me able to roam, O my Beloved, and at the right hand of the throne of Thy mercy, seat me, O my Desire! From the fragrant breezes of Thy joy let a breath pass over me, O my Goal, and into the heights of the paradise of Thy reality let me gain admission, O my Adored One! To the melodies of the dove of Thy oneness suffer me to hearken, O Resplendent One, and through the spirit of Thy power and Thy might quicken me, O my Provider! In the spirit of Thy love keep me steadfast, O my Succorer, and in the path of Thy good pleasure set firm my steps, O my Maker! Within the garden of Thine immortality, before Thy countenance, let me abide for ever, O Thou Who art merciful unto me, and upon the seat of Thy glory stablish me, O Thou Who art my Possessor! To the heaven of Thy loving-kindness lift me up, O my Quickener, and unto the Daystar of Thy guidance lead me, O Thou my Attractor! Before the revelations of Thine invisible spirit summon me to be present, O Thou Who art my Origin and my Highest Wish, and unto the essence of the fragrance of Thy beauty, which Thou wilt manifest, cause me to return, O Thou Who art my God! Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee. Thou art, verily, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, the All-Highest. -Bahá’u’lláh

I am almost always surprised by the things that trigger me. I didn't even vote in the 2020 election but I was " triggered" by people making fun of President Biden for his stutter because I was bullied a lot as a kid and also have a fear of public speaking 🗣️. I was never really thrilled about the choices we had as Americans but any time I think that something is being done out of meanness or " spite" that is " triggering" for me.

@nicholasbeck2649

3 ай бұрын

I remember watching Biden talk about how he struggled with a terrible stutter and how it was the one disability that people get away with making fun of, and how he also kept up with stutterers he had met and would call them and encourage them. As someone who struggled with stuttering that really encouraged my support for him and showed me his character.

I did a research paper in college about the effects of the threat of nuclear war. I can't imagine living a life in fear because your community sees you as "the enemy." For me, living in fear of nuclear war directed my life story. I chose the backwoods of Idaho to raise my kids without electricity and learned survival skills. Little did I know I was choosing to raise them where their cohorts would teach them white Christian nationalism

Thanks for this message!

States are not private property and state legislatures are not homeowners' associations. Ignoring the issues that the Oklahoma legislature would still be facing even if they were an HOA, state legislatures' missions are to serve the people within their borders; all of them

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” ~1 John 4: 7-8

Stress? That's an understatement. 😅 the whole political landscape triggers me daily. It is very bad for me and I know it. I pray every day. Thank you for your words.

Fight, flight or freeze. So many of us get triggered these days and yeah, we live in unprecedented times. In my head and heart I came to understand a reaction is just that, like a knee jerk thing. I see or hear something, it evokes a feeling or emotion in me and I react to that. No intellect over emotion. A response takes into account thought processing and fact checking . We can't run around half cocked because of being "triggered".... particularly when a lot of news channels focus on getting that type of reaction. We see it around us every day and it's absolutely exhausting. One of my daughters (in her 30's now) will say, yep I had to do the I over E, like in fraction form while recounting certain situations. I would try to encourage her when she was growing up to never let her emotions dictate her behaviors. I am so grateful that she was actually listening even though at the time she didn't let on!!❤

Ed - wonderful - a great starting point. But HOW? There are many strategies to find the present moment without getting caught up in the past fears and/or the future eventualities. I like to become very individualized. What does the person next to me need and how can I be of service? Playing a concert for a thousand people or so can be scary, if one temporarily forgets the music and instead pines on that. Even in preparation for the concert, pining on its "importance" only prepares me to seek shelter under the grand-piano when the applause starts. But preparing a (or many) default strategies when on-stage takes hours and hours of intensive practice alone and before-hand. One practises so that one can joyfully share when the curtain goes up. It's the joy that one is practising. Preparation is the key. Please give us a list of strategies for how to quickly turn off the stress-responses and to recognize them BEFORE they occur without their being currently necessary. Thanks and - love.

I am anxious to hear about the autopsy results. How did this happen? Nex should still be amongst us. R.I.P., Nex. Nex was NOT filth, Nex was a child. Nex had the SAME rights as State Senator Tom Woods child (if he has one). Being nonbinary is not a crime. I hope Sue Benedict has good legal counsel. It will not bring Nex back but might help save the next LGBTQ+ child in Oklahoma.

@UnashamedCaliforniagirl

3 ай бұрын

Is there a GoFundMe?

@UnashamedCaliforniagirl

3 ай бұрын

I want answers as well I am going to Google this after the video 📷❤ you Reverend Ed Trevors

@octavianpopescu4776

3 ай бұрын

Judging by what the Reverend said... I get the impression a cover up could happen. I'm not saying it's happening, but it's plausible. If there was a fight, a person goes to the hospital, they release that person and then that person has seizures and dies... why was the patient released from hospital in the first place? Did the doctors fail to conduct all the proper tests? Should/could they have detected some issues? Maybe, maybe not. But I can see a situation where the autopsy report might not reveal everything. I don't want to suggest some conspiracy is happening, but I think these are fair questions to ask.

@glorialewis8227

3 ай бұрын

@@octavianpopescu4776 Exactly. I am not a doctor and don’t claim to know what happened. I suspect some sort of brain trauma that was missed. Did they even look? Who were the girls who beat up Nex? Were they even charged? Three against one seems like some charges should have been filed.

Hope all the triggers and stress will soon be a distant memory while you spend your first night with Dingo in the wild blue yonder. Although this will be Dingo's first time camping, the fact that YOU will be there will mean HE won't be stressed out and want to take flight..💕

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

Yeah - things of importance: breathing-in nature, a man and his dog. Love.

@thomaselliot2257

3 ай бұрын

@@howardcohen6817 wishing you well Howard.

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

@@thomaselliot2257 So, now I'm a wishing-well! You too.Love.

@thomaselliot2257

3 ай бұрын

@@howardcohen6817 Deep! 😄

Jesus Christ was crucified between two thieves and becoming polarized to one side or the other steals from us. It would do us a world of good to look out for psychological theft within ourselves😊 Excellent reminder Reverend Ed, thanks!

@janetlynch5804

3 ай бұрын

You know nothing

@southernsass3947

3 ай бұрын

@@janetlynch5804 okey-dokey Smokey, God bless you! 🫶✌️

I grew up in a town across from an airbase that was a target...where the C130s flew so low that my mom joked she could swat them with her broom for flying overhead. We had a plan...my friends and I had a plan back in the 80s. The plan was this...grab a six pack of beer, jump into the boat, head out to the bay and watch the fireworks. That's pretty messed up. It was a given that we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust, and the only thing we could grab onto was get a little drunk and give in to the end. We couldn't think too far into the future. We're in uncharted territory. And we don't know how to deal with it.

@howardcohen6817

3 ай бұрын

The zebra's main concern is which blade of grass to choose. When the lion attacks, the zebra runs. It's just as fast and more agile than the lion who gets tired more easily and quits. The zebra very quickly reverts to choosing blades of grass as the main concern. It IS prepared for the future.

When my son was in college, he preformed in a powerful play called “ The Laramie Project” about a real event, the murder of a gay college student in 1998. Also I was triggered when Russia invaded Ukraine too. I actually had flashback emotions to when I was 6 1/2 years old in October, 1962 because of a situation we now refer as the Cuban Missile Crises. I grew up on a military facility that they knew was on the target list for those nukes. I didn’t understand much at the time except Russia was planning to bomb my home and the adults were scared. I haven’t ever forgotten how real the treat was and is. Honestly the repeating of horrible events makes me feel so hopeless.

I wish I could reason within my thoughts the fear of what may come and how to prevent it. Especially knowing that the USA has already experienced this and very little has changed. A lot of us are triggered to say the least. I find it consuming most days and have for years now. Please, please, please pray for our country that voters make the right choice in November.

This was one more horrendous act in a list of many. What would it take to understand that these same things are happening to unhoused people? What would it take to care about those of us who are subjected to hate and violence because we don't have an address? Does it matter to anyone that I've been called vermin?????

Wanted to comment further Rev Ed growing up up in the 70s and 80s I remember those drills in school too as a kid in the back of your mind would the world end..There were two powerful movies that helped bring peace first was The Day after and Wargames both Regean and Gorbachev watch and took these movies very seriously..When Regean and Gorbachev sign the treaty it was a great feeling in the back of your minded no war the world is not going to end. The Berlin wall came down...The world was always screwed up..When you look back at the horror of World War 2 and you see Ukraine and Gaza war don't make any sense..

@BabblinBrookeBradford-yo9lk

3 ай бұрын

"Sometimes, the only way to win the game, is to decide not to play."😎

@ad-dx9gi

3 ай бұрын

@@BabblinBrookeBradford-yo9lk 😎

Fight, flight, or freeze

fight flight freeze fawn We all have trigger, stimuli which convince our nervous systems that we are being attacked by a jaguar instead of facing an event halfway around the world or which occurred on a previous day. It is our responsibility to learn how to manage our responses to these triggers, to identify them, and to do the work of facing them in safe environments to take back control from them. It is society's responsibility to allow us to have this safety and space, and to teach us how to manage these responses. Society is not doing it's job. This means that many are convinced that they cannot heal from their trauma. It usually DOES mean that it will take a lot more time to do that healing, because the necessary support to do it quickly will not be available. But there are so many of us taking responsibility for this work, and we can help each other do this work of healing.

L.O.V.E. rulz... within the natural order of Lesson, Opportunity, Variety, Evolution...(Education) 💜WITH💜 Respect Regard Relevance Resolution... It is mankind that reverse’s the natural harmony of love to create E.V.O.L. and places the (i) within that evil. Pro💜Love 👣🕊👽

Hi All, I've been working with meditation and "Resilient" by Rick Hanson. It's got some great techniques to help manage your mind & body. It really helps me manage anxiety and avoid triggering the fight/flight/freeze response. God bless.

Don't get me wrong. I'm completely in favour of the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian aggression. But I also backed the Iraqi resistance to US aggression - but somehow No American can recognise the parallel. Might be time to awaken Americans to this reality...

@octavianpopescu4776

3 ай бұрын

There's a difference. Americans did not go to Iraq to annex Iraq and to exterminate and go on rampages raping and stealing. They did not go to Iraq to erase Iraqi identity. If you want a better parallel, think Native Americans... Russia is there to commit genocide, to deport people, to erase an entire culture (it's called Russification). It's why victory is the only way and why negotiating a peace or letting Russia have some land is out of the question. They did it to my people too. Bessarabia, to this day, is a separate country from my own (Rep. Moldova which is separate from Romania), although if you look at historical maps, that part of Moldova was conquered by them in 1812 and they immediately forced everyone to speak Russian, they brought in Russians and deported Romanians, use of Romanian was banned in public institutions and schools, printing books in Romanian was outlawed, many people Russified their names... everything had to be done in Russian. So... it's not Iraq 2, it's Native Americans 2.

This is what the elections are doing for me. All the memories of 2016 and 2020 are hitting me in full force and I can't pull myself away from every poll and pundit narrative. It hurts.

I thought that Benedict was beaten and at some point, she fell and hit her head. Didn't seem to be major at the time, but the next day, she died of a bloodclot ?

There's the pain already that has hit so many so very hard! 💔 Imo, the story is disgusting as it stands. However from the get go I've felt more and worse will be revealed. I hope I'm very wrong 💜

We are all just basically meat sacks. Our bodies are governed by hormones and chemicals that can change on any given day. Yes, we have a mind that can compensate but not everyone can overcome imbalances just with thought. Add drug and alcohol abuse into the mix and the imbalances no longer have a tether to reality. This is the problem I see with the gun culture in my country. A person could get "triggered", but with time for things to come back into focus, perhaps nothing happens. A person that has ready access to a firearm that gets triggered may not have a cool-down period, or a chance to sober up. The object of stress can be dealt with instantly with no chance of reversal. I remember being in a discussion about the Las Vegas mass shooting. The perpetrator had no criminal past and none of his friends and acquaintances saw any signs of a problem. We were trying to figure out the motivation. One person answers with a simple but profound statement. He said, "So the guy was a law-abiding citizen until he wasn't." I believe that just about anyone can get triggered and commit a regrettable act given the right circumstances. Adam and Eve were perfect physically and they messed up. All we can do is the best we can.

Ukraine... I feel guilty that Ukraine gave up nukes, in exchange for American protection. We can't even send them weapons to protect themselves. I am praying for Ukraine...

I'm shocked that the pope has just said Ukraine should wave the white flag. I don't think that's the right thing to do, we should stand up against oppression.

@ad-dx9gi

3 ай бұрын

0:29 I was thinking a couple of things with the Pope, Look at something in a different way, By the Pope saying the things he said Ukraine in more United, The world may get more serious to Give Ukraine much more help and aid they need. Ukraine needs aid or there in trouble..The Pope was showing Ukraine condition is dire Wheres the Republicans in Congress to give Ukraine the aid they need, Biden wanted the aid to go through months ago Republicans care doing politics...

Was this issue started because someone thought that they were using the " wrong" bathroom? I am sorry I don't know all of the facts and am just trying to understand why the fight started?

@thomaselliot2257

3 ай бұрын

I heard that these 3 girls harrassed and bullied Nex constantly, waiting for Nex to push one,which Nex did, to give them the excuse to attack Nex.