Charlie Kirk & Iryna Zarutska (What No One Is Talking About)

Charlie Kirk was murdered and we watched!
Iryna Zarutska was murdered and we watched!

So as a response, rather than true mourning, repentance, empathy, support and prayer - we choose to DEBATE!!!!

My heart is so heavy today, but not for the reasons you may think!

See, we didn't just watch the murders and move on, something else happened, something we're not talking about!

Let's dive in, let's talk about this!

Transcript

Treveal C.W. Lynch (00:01)
Hey, what's going on y'all? Welcome to another episode and experience here in the I Am The Possible podcast universe. ⁓ Today guys, it's a tough one. It's a tough one. ⁓ My heart is heavy, heavy, heavy. And ⁓ I may not come with the same energy as I would normally come with, ⁓ but different times call for different energy. And so today I just want to...

bring to light some things in view of or in light of some of the recent social media murders and violence that we have witnessed. Over the last couple of days, we've seen a young Ukrainian girl murdered. We've seen a politician, activist, Republican.

whatever you want to label him as, but we've seen a young man in politics assassinated. And there is plenty on the internet that is divisive, that is dualistic, that is picking of sides. There's tons of information and conversations that are happening right now about how important it is to

pray for this man's family to, you know, regardless of your views or if you agreed or disagreed with him, this is what you should be doing as a Christian. There's a lot of, I guess you want to call them Christian overseers right now, ⁓ like demanding and commanding and trying to, in a sense, orchestrate.

what we as Christians should be doing right now. And I have to be honest with you, in my heart and mind, I'm saying miss me. Miss me with all of that. Miss me with more instructions. Miss me with more prodding. Miss me with more of your telling me as a Christian how I should view this or view that or do this or do that. I've really had enough. I'm truly fed up with

Christian leaders and if you're not watching this on YouTube, I'm holding up quotations air quotes these Christian leaders Instructing us educating us informing us about how we should go about our business That really is its own separate I guess rant or or video but in today's episode I want to I want to draw our attention to what I feel

matters most in all of this. I'm not gonna tell you my political views. I'm not gonna tell you how I feel about Charlie Kirk. I'm not gonna tell you what I feel about the Ukrainian girl being murdered on the train. You've got your own opinions. I'm not here to debate your opinions. I'm not here to give you my opinion. I'm not here to give you what you should be thinking. Here's what I am here to do though. I'm here today to call out the fact that

In the midst of all of this, I'm noticing some things. And I'm going to read to you a post that I recently put up this morning on Facebook that really, I think, summarizes my heart right now. But I'm aware of something, and I'm sure I'm not the only person that's aware of it, but I'm aware of something that I think is not being talked about enough. I see what's coming through my feed on the regular.

This, what I want to talk about today, this is not what I see coming up on my feed. And here's what I'm talking about. The mental, the emotional trauma that is happening in today's society and in the hearts and minds of not only this current, but this next and future generation.

We are being traumatized on a regular and it's not okay. Like listen to what I'm saying. We're being literally traumatized. Right now I'm going through therapy. So I know a lot about this right now. I'm learning the vocabulary. I'm learning how to identify with these different things. I'm learning what these different things are, right? I've studied them over the last 20 or so years, but that was study.

That was theoretic right now. I'm living it. I'm in it. I'm in therapy right now. I'm getting the help that I need. And now more than ever, I understand because I'm going through it. I understand it in a whole different way. now we are being traumatized and here's the sad part about it. We're being traumatized and we're not aware of it because it's happening so often that we're not even picking up on it. We've become desensitized.

And I'ma just be honest with you. I'ma let the cat out the bag. This is happening in my own heart. I know if it's happening to me, it has to be happening to others. I don't even pray the same. I've noticed that. I don't even pray the same. I'ma keep it a buck, man. I used to pray with such pinpoint accuracy, such detail. God bless this, God bless this. help this, help that. heal this, heal that. do this, do that.

You guys know what my prayer is now? God help us.

That's my prayer. God help us. And for some of you seasoned folks, you're listening to this and you're saying, well, son, that's what you should have always been praying. You didn't know? Well, no, I didn't know. didn't. Dumb me, idiot me. I actually thought I could pray these very specific, pinpoint accurate prayers and have the Lord show up and show out in such a pinpoint ⁓ fashion. But no, I'm not seeing that right now.

hold on, this is not a rant, this is not a, I'm just gonna bring you down more sort of episode. I've got some call to actions. I've got some things that I believe are gonna help you because I need help as well. So these are things that I'm doing that I wanna share with you that's gonna help us through this. But I first wanna lay the foundation. I first wanna share with you the problem before we get to the solution. So we're being over traumatized, desensitized and...

The reason I share my prayer is because I have recognized that my heart is growing.

I won't say that I'm there because I'm not there, but I want to be honest enough and I want to be whatever, right? Transparent enough. There are moments where my heart feels as if it's growing hopeless. Here's what I mean. Hopeless in that things are going to get better in America.

Hopeless that people are going to change. Hopeless that the sun is gonna shine again. Hopeless that we as a society, we're gonna turn it around. Hopeless that we're gonna ever have this kumbaya sort of society. And maybe I should be, because maybe those things are never going to change. This society is never going to change. America is never going to change. Leadership is never going to change. Maybe I should be hopeless in that context, because maybe as many Christians online are saying, well,

Bible told us it was going to be this way. The Bible said, the Bible told us in the end times, and we've been screaming in times since all of us have been born. We've been screaming in times for the last 2000, 3000 years and ain't nothing ended. That's another soapbox. But we've been screaming in times and it's going to look this way and it's going to be this way before the coming of the Christ and yada, yada, yada. And it's a way to like, I don't know, self therapy, self, self elude.

I don't know what's going on, right? But here's what I do know. I've been tempted to be hopeless in some of these areas. And there's a part of me that doesn't want to lose hope.

call it whatever you want to call it. But there's a part of me that doesn't want to lose hope. And this morning as I was meditating in this and I was wrestling with this, and perhaps you wrestle with these same thoughts, perhaps you wrestle with these same issues. What came to me, and this is what I want to share with you today, is that just because we're hyper-focused on one thing doesn't mean other things don't exist. In other words, because I go on my social media feed,

and all I see is violence and murder and divisiveness and propaganda doesn't mean that's the only thing that's available to see. Just because I go to my job and we have ⁓ infighting within our team or we have people talking about others on other project teams or we have these conflicts between business partners or we have conflicts between

our team and maybe a vendor that we're working with. That doesn't mean that that's the only thing that exists. Because we go out into society and even today as I was driving home from the store, another example of it, right? This guy was just leaning on the horn and it just kept on the horn. And I'm like, what in the world is this? So as I'm driving out the parking lot, as I'm pulling out the parking lot, the guy's leaning on the horn.

And he's yelling out of his window at someone that we would consider homeless. I don't know if he was homeless or not, but the guy, he looked, you know, pretty bad off. I guess the guy was either walking in front of the guy's truck or in his way or not moving fast enough, but the guy was in a Starbucks line. And I'm just like, again, outside looking in, I don't know the whole situation, but my interpretation, cause we all interpret, let's, let's be honest. We all interpret. My interpretation was, damn dude, you,

You trying to get your latte like that latte mean that much bro? Like your little muffin in the morning or your little sandwich means that much bro? What if this guy is sick? What if this guy is hurt? Whatever it is. Or if he's just being a knucklehead, even if the guy, worst case, the guy is being a knucklehead, you don't have enough patience to just let this guy go by.

that you gotta lean on your horn and just cause all sort of ruckus and bring attention to yourself. And then you're screaming and yelling at this guy at the top of your lungs, outside of your car. Like we're having road rage in the Starbucks line. So my point is just because you're out in the world and you see a lot of this junk going on, it's not the only thing to see. Or perhaps you're someone that's having drama and trauma within your home. My point is this.

I'm using the Charlie Kirk murder. I'm using the Ukrainian girls murder. I'm using this madness that we're seeing online to illustrate a larger picture, a larger issue. In society, we are desensitized. In society, we are watching murder, violence, divisive propaganda, lies, scandal, malicious allegations. It's like constantly pumping our way.

And if we are not intentional about finding the beauty in life, if we are not intentional about praying and saying, give me an awareness of what is still good, then we will be left to the drama and trauma that is piling on. It's staying with us. It's sticking in and to our bodies. We are embodying it, that energy, that negative polluted energy. It's sticking with us.

We think we're good. We think we just watched it and we just kept scrolling. No, you didn't just watch it and kept scrolling. You watched it, it hit you, it stayed with you, and it's piling on. And that's the danger. It's an accumulative effect. It piles on. It sits and waits until more is piled on and piled on and piled on until one day your heart is callous, you're cold-blooded with it, you don't give a damn anymore,

You can barely, hardly pray anymore. When you see something happen, you're not empathetic. When you see something happen, your heart doesn't break. When you see something happen, you don't pray. Why am I able to say this? Because I'm there. I'm there. Judge me if you want. Judge me if you want. Judge me if you want. I'm brave enough to admit that there are parts of me,

that are desperately holding on for some sort of hope. Because a lot of this stuff, instead of being truly empathetic and truly sympathetic and truly praying and truly repenting on behalf of the nation and truly fasting and truly doing these different things, a lot of it is, you know what, I'm sick of y'all. I'm sick of y'all, I'm sick of this, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of the fighting. I'm sick of the bickering. I'm sick of the back and forth. I'm sick of it. Enough is enough. I'm done with it. And then for the Christian leaders or the Christian social media influencers, whatever you want to call yourself, man, word to you. I hope some of y'all see this. I'm gonna try to pump it out to the masses as much as I can. Dude, we don't need more, like we're being traumatized.

Like this crap hurts, this crap is damaging. And to have you run out and hurry up, make a video and hashtag, know, Charlie Kirk and hashtag Ukrainian, you know, woman, whatever, hashtag, whatever, so that you can get your views up so that you can tell us more of what we got to do. Miss me with that. No one wants to hear that. That's not doing any of us any good. We don't want to hear that. And if we are just in the comments talking about, amen,

We're literally just amaning it. We're just numb. We're just doing it at a default. There's no real heart behind that. We're not really supporting what you saying. Those amans, they're just knee jerk reactions. They're just default mechanisms. None of it is coming from the heart. None of it is coming from the soul. We're just, amen, amen, amen. We're not even giving it no thought. We barely halfway reading your posts. We're not even watching the video all the way through. Newsflash. We just amanning it, man. We just thumbs up at it, man.

Right? Because that's all we know how to do. We're like freaking hamsters on freaking wheels, man, hamster wheels, man. We're just, we're just doing the daily thing, man. Right? We, we, we see a post, it looks somewhat like what we agree with and we just amen and thumbs up it and emoji it and yeah, amen. Amen. And, bro, our amens are not informed amens. So anyway, that's, I'm doing a lot of ranting, but

I'm gonna get to the point here. me reel it back in. Let me read this post for y'all, man. And then I wanna give you guys two things. ⁓ How to get it off my chest. As I was telling, ⁓ as I made a little quick short form video this morning, like get it out, release it. And a part of getting it out and releasing it is for me right now on this podcast. I'm just getting it out. I'm just releasing it. So here, me read this post that kind of.

summarizes my heart and mind right now this morning. And then I want to give you two things that you guys can do and should do, perhaps, if you're dealing with the weight and the pressure and the tension of just what we're going through right now. Okay, you're just looking for that relief.

as I am, all right? Our souls should not carry such burden, ⁓ should be a healthy balance, should be a healthy balance of concern and personal care.

Okay. So this is what I wrote this morning ⁓ in a Facebook post. Get the help you need. We're being traumatized constantly, but the trauma comes with such regularity that we've become desensitized and unaware that it's even happening. Still, the damage is being done. The pressure is mounting. The tension is getting stronger.

and the ability to maintain a hopeful position, even as a Christian, is becoming more more difficult by the day. I believe for many of us, instead of truly repenting, truly praying, and truly being concerned with the families of the fallen, not just for Charlie Kirk or the Ukrainian girl, but for every person that represents humanity, we are unknowingly

traumatized through these images, manipulated by divisive propaganda and bullied into becoming the very thing that we hate, antagonists. Well, as for me, I count myself with the worst and I humble and I humbly pray ⁓ that God helps me to maintain my sanity and continue to use whatever voice, to use whatever voice I have.

to speak out, to share, invite, to encourage, to uplift, to educate, to strengthen, to appreciate, to honor, and to empower those who are suffering within. I would do what I can. My prayer is that you would take this serious enough to do what you can for yourself, to heal yourself.

So should we be concerned? Absolutely. When we see things online, when we see things in life, should we be concerned? Yes, absolutely, we should be concerned. But there should be a level of personal care. There should be a balance of care. The scale should not be all concerned with no personal care, all traumatized with no personal care. So here's what I want you guys to do, two things that I...

that I'm doing myself and I would encourage you guys to do it. Number one, get the help that you need. Get the help that you need. And the help that you need can be whatever that looks like. It can be getting a professional therapist like me. It can be consulting with those in your church, brothers and sisters in the Lord. It can be a mentor, someone who's a trusted voice in your life who you can...

grab a cup of coffee with, it can be a best friend, ⁓ it can be a sibling, but get the release happening. There's a lot of pressure being built up within you. There's a lot of tension that's happening. There's a lot of weight and stress that's happening internally. So one of the ways is through dialogue, conversations.

knowing that someone else understands you, sees you, recognizes you, and accepts you. Like, you can say the things that I said today, like to them, and they won't judge you, but they'll stand with you, and they'll share their lives, and they'll share their parts, and they'll share where, you know, they are. ⁓ And so, you want to just get around folks to where you can get the help that you need through a conversation, okay?

⁓ Talk about it. Get it out. Let it vent. ⁓ Just get someone where you can have these moments of accountability for each other's soul, ⁓ where you can be encouraged, they can give you a different perspective. Bottom line, tell someone what you're going through. Pull someone else in and talk about it. Just talk about it.

Don't hold it all in. Don't pretend like it's not there. Don't act like you're okay. Acknowledge that this is a lot. Acknowledge that our country is going through a lot. Acknowledge that what we're seeing and hearing and watching and feeling, it's a lot. It is. Acknowledge that it's okay. For my men who are listening, you ain't punking out. You're not soft. You're not any of that crap that they tell you that you are. No, you are a human.

and your emotions are real and those emotions have been given to you by God for a reason. And if they are being triggered right now, if you are low on energy right now, if you are feeling depressed, isolated, alone, frantic, know, anxious, then that's happening for a reason. That's informing you of something. That's what emotions do. Emotions are informants. They are informing you of something. They are telling you, hey, pay attention to this. Take note on this.

So if you are a man, please don't the hyper masculinity and the social stigmas and all of that foolishness get in the way of you getting some help. right. And then number two, man, right? Cause that's the first one that involves other people. But sometimes either you don't have other people quite yet or you got to work on that part of it. So what can you do alone? I want you to pray like I've been praying and I want you to ask God to make you aware.

of the good in this world. Just because what you're looking at the most is the violence and the crime and all of the negativity, just because that's what you see the most, that doesn't mean that that's all that there is to see. Can I say that correctly? Just because the violence is all that you're seeing, right?

doesn't mean that that's the only thing available to see. Maybe that'll make more sense. In other words, it's easy for us to pick up our phones and to scroll and to find violence. It's easy for us to go outside and watch our neighbors and find violence. It's easy for us to pick up, I'm gonna say pick up a newspaper, we don't even have newspapers no more, but it's easy for us to cut the news on and see violence.

By default, violence is being pumped to us, fed to us. It takes an intention to find the good nowadays. Because the good is not what you find on the job. The good is not what you find at the coffee ⁓ stand or the, back when I was working in the office, there's the coffee room, you know, where people congregate around the coffee pot, right? And they kind of talk, right? ⁓

Those conversations are probably more gossip or something negative, right? So my point is those coffee area conversations, social media scrolling, the local news, these things may not provide for you the positivity or the good that's available. You have to be intentional about it. So I want you to pray, God, expand my...

awareness, help me to see the good that's available. There's good out there. We just have to be intentional about finding it. The negativity, it will find us. The positivity, we have to go looking for. So go look for it. Ask God to make you aware of it. One thing that I do is I go for a walk. I go for a walk. I find I have a beautiful park not too far from here, my favorite park. They even named it the Great Park, so that was pretty cool. But find yourself.

a space, a place that just speaks of God's goodness, of God's peace, joy, that speaks of order. Because a lot of what we're seeing online and all these other places, we see disorder, we see chaos. Ask God to lead you to a space and a place that allows you to witness, to behold.

God's goodness and God's order. One of the ways I find that is in nature. Nature is God personified. mean, just nature is just, we didn't make it up. We don't control it, right? It just happens the way God wants it to happen. And it's beautiful to watch. It's beautiful to behold. It's beautiful to see. And it reminds me that yes, we as humans,

We are tearing some stuff up.

but God's order is still available. God's beauty is still available. And I just, in those moments, I say, okay, I'm starting over again. God, how can I take what you've given me and create something beautiful with my life? How can I contribute to others in a beautiful way? So I just encourage you to...

to do this as well if you're the pressure, like I've been feeling the pressure. All right? Love you guys, praying for you guys, believing in you guys. More content like this to come. I've been journaling for a couple of years now actually in secrecy. ⁓

And seeing myself as more of an activist, more of a voice for the marginalized, a voice for the voiceless.

lot of confirmation has been happening in this season. So more to come speaking on these topics, more to come speaking out on what I see in our society. Yeah, that's it for now. I love you guys so, so much, Until next time, guys, please remember, remember, remember to love yourself.

Love your creator and love those around you.