Prolificate

Host Andrew Chirch is an Interfaith minister and spiritual coach for real people like you.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

Each week, we meet up for 9-minutes to explore teachings from ALL the world's religions to help us make sense of our lives.

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This week's topic, based off the divine name Ya-Majid, is all about divine super-abundance. It's about both

• being blessed with a gift - AND -
• this full-body sense of awareness of that blessing.

"...the kind of awareness that pervades your whole being. As if you're a sponge and you're drinking up this warm, sweet water that permeates you every. which. way."

************** Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith minister and spiritual coach for folks just like you.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning. *************

The abundance of the harvest can be seen at the bottom of the well.

Let's unpack this a little.

What I think this bit of wisdom is saying is that there is hope for us... if we work to bring the water from the bottom of the well to the surface, and then we use it to water the soil in the garden we've prepared and planted, then eventually that garden - or those date palms - will grow and bear fruit. At the end of this little line of reasoning, we're able to pick the dates and enjoy their sweetness as our reward.

************** Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world. One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

This was a rough day for me. One of my favorite patients was dying, which led me to realize that I have favorite patients, which I haven't given myself permission to have. Also: Blood. Lots of it.

Just another day as an Interfaith Chaplain.

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith minister and coach to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

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In Arabic there is this word, Ya Wadud, which translates as Divine love. To me, this kind of love is the most powerful, least disguised, and even a little scary.

The kind of love this is talking about includes sexual intimacy. (I know, right?!). If you're like me, using the words sex and love and the divine in the same sentence feels a little off limits. I mean, growing up in European-centered culture, the divine is code for "God" and whether I believe this or not, the face of God is culturally programmed to be an old white guy with a beard. Eww!

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Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole. Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith student, coach, and ministers to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters. The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning. *************

This week's episode gets its start from the qualities behind the word, Al Mu'izz, and I'm using a translation of that word that means something like "giver of praise or self-esteem." It's one of the 99 names of the divine and it's talking about a quality of G-d that gives us self-esteem.

If you're new to this series, you may not know that I never make assumptions about what you believe - or If a belief in a God plays any part in what keeps you going.

Whatever you believe, where does your assurance and comfort and self-esteem come from?

Are you a compulsive pleaser—needing to be liked at almost any cost?

Are you defensive and guarded—just sure that people will hurt you if you let them?

Think about where those parts of your personality come from—where they got their start. It's possible you were just born lonely, or confident, or whatever. And it's also possible that part of this is a sort of programming, from your earliest time in this life.

************** Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world. One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself. Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole. Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith student, coach, and ministers to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

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This week's message is just for you if you've ever wondered why bad things happen to good people.

It's inspired by the Arabic Ya-Adl, meaning something like just mercy, but in a meta sense that also is about balance, and flow, and a sort of cosmic or divine evening out of things that are way beyond our ability to grasp.

Here's a quote by Paulo Coelho from his book, By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept:

"Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken."

Those words are comforting to me. Are they to you?

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Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith student, coach, and ministers to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

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This week we're talking about the Forgiver.... From one of the Arabic names for the Divine - Ya Ghaffar.

I'm told that this name shares linguistic roots with beeswax - a substance that gets used as a salve or like a soothing lotion for dried, cracked skin.

If your internal critic is anything like mine, dried and cracked is a pretty good way to describe the effect it can have on me, so I love this notion of an antidote.

My friend, I don't know what battles you face, or what lies ahead for you. I do know that you are not alone. I know that you are amazing and strong and kind in ways that no one may ever realize, but YOU realize it.

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Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

This week, I started an intense experience as a Chaplain Intern at a local hospital. Some observations based on this powerful, intense experience.

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Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith student, coach, and ministers to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

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Think of a moment when you were confident, kind, poised and you were in the zone. Have you located that feeling? Ok. Hold on to it.

Now if you can, I invite you to bring back a painful moment - maybe the worst thing that has ever happened to you... but be gentle with yourself. Only what you feel you can handle.

Now almost like these two feelings are two separate people, or two versions of you.... I invite you to introduce them to each other.

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Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected]

Host Andrew Chirch is an interfaith student, coach, and ministers to the Non-Religious, skeptics, and doubters.

The idea for 99 comes from the Islamic teaching that there are 99 names for the divine, and each one has its own meaning.

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Today's subject comes from a word that in the Arabic, I'm told, means inner knowledge - the kind that comes from cultivation.

How long since you have been in the garden of your soul?

How is it?

Overworked and exhausted?

Wild and overgrown with brambles?

Lush and green with new life?

All the little deaths and big ones you have suffered were not in vain. They're there in your garden—slowly decomposing into their component parts so something amazing can grow.

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Prolificate.com is about people & ideas that illuminate the world.

One of those people – is you. – and 99 is a weekly 9-minute spiritual practice designed to challenge you, just the right amount, and remind you to take care of yourself.

Illuminating the world is hard work, so we need you whole.

Find me on Twitter or Instagram @Prolificate or send me an email at [email protected].