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Tick tock, tick tock When you see a clock, what do you think of? What comes to mind? We could talk about making the best use of our time, as each one of these seconds ticks by. For you, for me. We know we’re not getting them back. We know we have a limited supply -- of unknown quantity . Sit back for a moment, and watch a clock. Look at those seconds tick by.  They’re gone. For you. For me. We know this.  But we also know there’s nothing we can do about it, so most of the time, I think most of us just kinda shrug it off, right?  It is what it is. Here’s what I think of when I see a timer. Couple time-related factoids. We toss “million” & “billion” around all the time, we know they’re big numbers, but it’s easy to lose the sense of the scale. So how old are you when you become one million seconds old ? Answer is 11 Days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds . Just a newborn, and a million seconds go by, just like that. Not even two weeks. But you becom...

 There’s this crazy connection between justice & grace. But to see it, you need to understand what these things are. We think we do, usually, but can you put it into words? Do you really understand what these things are, and do you understand how other people understand these things? We see injustice all around us, in the news, we all care very much about justice, but what do we really know about it? That’s the tricky part; there are 3 different forms of justice active in our world today. When someone calls something “justice,” we don’t all hold the same concept about what that means. So let me quickly explain these three ideas of justice. I’ll explore them more deeply another time, but you can explore them, too. Harvard opened a free online course , their first course you can do for free, just sign up online and take the class, or you can just watch the YouTube videos . The professor is Michael Sandel, and he wrote a book called Justice: What’s the Right Thin...