From editorial project manager Mia Staub: I like to think of myself as an expert on panic after spending the past several years learning how to live with anxiety and how to put it in its place. In Russell Moore’s column from our May/June issue, I resonated with his description of the way social media has exhausted us and profited on panic. 

Social media can untether us from reality, letting anxiety take the reins. Information becomes the solution, and consumption our source of relief. And unlike the other questions that come up in young adulthood that my parents and mentors can share their experience and advice on, we are all learning to live with social media at the same time. 

One counterbalance I have found is to add to the lilies and sparrows of Matthew 6:25–34. I take photos of things I notice on my daily walks, like sidewalk chalk art by neighborhood kids. I literally stop and smell the roses. When I intentionally get offline and “touch grass,” I can ground myself in my community, in reality, and in the place God has called me to.