{"id":45280,"date":"2016-11-26T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45280"},"modified":"2016-12-04T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T01:43:55","slug":"being-mocked-is-a-holy-endeavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/being-mocked-is-a-holy-endeavor\/","title":{"rendered":"Being mocked is a holy endeavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cosmic-man-arms-outstretched.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45281\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cosmic-man-arms-outstretched-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"cosmic-man-arms-outstretched\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cosmic-man-arms-outstretched-300x143.jpg 300w, http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cosmic-man-arms-outstretched.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. We undergo a crucifixion in every lifetime and our response to it balances karmic debt and determines how long we keep ourselves on the cross. It\u2019s the same as coming to the altar to pray, expecting to receive fully, when we\u2019ve not first forgiven everyone and everything. The initiation is in being mocked, hated and misunderstood. We run the gauntlet of the initiation by how we respond and react. The honor and blessing of it is being given an opportunity to resolve the past, do things differently and make a clean start. 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We undergo a crucifixion in every lifetime and our response to it balances karmic debt and determines how long we keep ourselves on the cross. It\u2019s the same as coming to the altar to pray, expecting to receive fully, when we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45282,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280\/revisions\/45282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}