This podcast usually talks about hardship from the inside — the personal, the emotional, the spiritual.

Today the hardship is different. Today it belongs to all of us.

Three men were killed at the Islamic Center of San Diego during the holiest week of the year. Three men who did not run away. Three men who ran toward — and gave everything to protect the people they loved.

Their lives raise a question that I think every single one of us needs to sit with. What are you absorbing from this world? And what are you leaving behind in it? Because if their deaths teach us anything — it is that we do not always get to choose when the time runs out.

Three men were killed protecting their community.

A 51-year-old father of eight who saved 150 children.

A 78-year-old who ran toward the gunmen.

A 57-year-old ne ...