This is the Salaback Church podcast.

My message today has really been burning in my heart this week, and this whole weekend,

I've felt so much of a burden around the subject we're going to talk about today.

It really has been a journey for me around this subject

of anxiety for a long time. But this last week or two weeks ago, I was at home and I did something

I don't normally do. Stacey was gone. Kids were gone. And I watched the nightly news. I don't know

if any of you guys still watched the news. And so on that day in particular particular, there was a Senate hearing, and they brought

in social media CEOs, and there were some parents who had lost their children, in many ways,

connected to social media, a child that had died by suicide, another one that had been bullied,

another one that had died from drugs that they had gotten.

And I'm watching this whole scene, these clips of parents in front of Senate with these CEOs.

It was a very morbid scene.

And my heart was going out to these parents as I'm watching them with pictures of kids.

And part of the reason why is I have a 17 and a 15 year old, and we're

having these conversations about social media. And immediately, as I'm watching this in my heart

is being filled with compassion, I immediately go to my kids and I start thinking about the world

that my children are growing up in, which is very different than the world I grew up in in the 1990s.

And I remember even a lot of the challenges that I faced, maybe on a smaller scale or some similar challenges,

but for students now, and for those of you who are students who are listening to my voice,

there's so much that's coming at you.

And really, we live in a world where you can watch your friends have parties and

they're all seemingly enjoying themselves and you feel internally your own angst and frustration.

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