VITAL SERMON OF THE WEEK

A Microdose of Mortality

This may be the funniest, thought-provoking 17 minutes you will spend pondering death. The Rev. Robin Bartlett, of First Church in Sterling, Massachusetts, downloaded an app that randomly reminds her five times a day that she will die. It’s a humbling exercise that made her stop in her tracks. “The fact that I will one day perish from earth makes the sun shining through the window all the more shimmering, the people I love more precious to my life, the grudges I hold all the more pointless.”