Political tensions, anxiety, and loneliness are on the rise.

But problems like these aren't new, and the solutions don't have to be either.

For thousands of years, societies have asked questions about how to live, thrive, and love.

And it was spiritual traditions that offered wisdom and tools to help people find their way.

Tools that science is now discovering offer real benefits. Join me, Dave

Dosteno, to explore how we can all use this wisdom, whatever our beliefs. Listen to

How God Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Lacko, I'm in to jump right in today if that's okay with you. There's a lot to cover. I mean, this is a seriously chockhole taro portion today.

But I want to begin by asking you a question that has to do with getting lost or being lost.

Is there a time in your life, a story you can think of where you yourself got lost or you lost your kids?

I want to hear from you and then I want to pull back the aperture to what's happening

with our Israelites in the desert. Okay, great. Conveniently, I do remember losing my children.

Did it happen many times? A time or two, but one story stands out was on the beach and my kids and

my kids and their friends all went to the snack bar and at a certain point I was like

where where are the kids where are they it's been too long they have to be back from the snack bar

and I started going you know lifeguard station a light guard station have you seen a kid she's in a

one piece yellow there are two kids in red shorts and this is also we laugh about it about it now because, you know, they were just kids. They came back eventually. I was like sweating and near hysteria. Like, I've lost my children. And as soon as I knew they were okay, I was like, where have you been? Why did you do that to me? And they were like, you're out of your mind. We got an ice cream. We're back. First of all, I love that you actually

knew what they were all wearing. I think being a nervous parent, I had heard somewhere, like

always clock what your kids are wearing, because God forbid, they're abducted or something.

You can say it was a blue shirt and a green hat. Okay, so we're adding the fact that you were

in general a nervous parent.

So reflecting on this story, you can see a whole boatload of emotions coming up all at once.

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