99.26 Some Advice from Job about your Suffering

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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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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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