{"id":50,"date":"2015-05-16T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.prophetsplanet.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-05-16T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:47:58","slug":"in-my-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"In My Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my shoes, just to see what it\u2019s like to be me
\nI\u2019ll be you, let\u2019s trade shoes
\nJust to see what it\u2019d be like to feel your pain
\nYou feel mine, go inside each other\u2019s minds
\nJust to see what we find
\nLook at life through each other\u2019s eyes
\nBut don\u2019t let em say you ain\u2019t beautiful
\nThey can all get lost, just stay true to you
\nDon\u2019t let em say you ain\u2019t beautiful<\/p>\n

They can all get lost, just stay true to you<\/p>\n

Eminem<\/a><\/p>\n

The process of love goes in stages I believe. Its a total process. You have to go from \u2018Having Love, to Showing Love, to Being love!\u2019<\/p>\n

Each one is a step, and its a practice that many have gone before us and have conquered. Having<\/strong> <\/em>love is the first step of the process. It usually happens when you have been amazingly touched by Love in your being. \u00a0So the beginning process is that you respond by just having love and grace for others around you! This first phase if you will is more of a response. \u00a0No one can have love that hasn\u2019t first experienced it. It is like the ripple effect or wave after the initial splash in a pool of water. So those that \u2018Have\u2019 love towards others have experienced love! You can not share and give what you do not have or experienced. \u00a0If you do it will not possess the true content of substance. \u00a0Your having love towards others will be nothing more than another concept, not substance.<\/p>\n

Showing<\/strong><\/em> love is nothing more than a choice to align myself to the power of love that was shown unto me. \u00a0Love on this level is a choice, a daily, minute by minute decision to choose to remember the power of the love that abides in you! \u00a0Choices like these chip away at the core of your self life. \u00a0In every situation in your life, weigh it in light of \u00a0I Corinthians chapter 13. \u00a0If you read that chapter, there is pretty much not anything else to say.<\/p>\n

Being<\/strong><\/em> love is a total surrender! When you choose you still are in control, because you might still choose not to show love. \u00a0When you surrender then you \u00a0have given up the right to choose. This is the ultimate level, then God Himself can BE Himself through you. You surrender your choice to love or not love, and eventually you become Love.<\/p>\n

Practicing this process in real life goes like this. For the record in the old concept of God\u2019s grace or man\u2019s will, I say God\u2019s grace abounds and definitely came before mans ability to choose. When I think about this journey and process of becoming Love, I think it goes in these\u00a0ascetic practices.<\/p>\n

1. Empathy<\/strong><\/em>: the learned ability to to feel FOR someone<\/strong> and their struggles. \u00a0This is a conscience choice to feel for the suffering of others. This is what I call Having love. The ability to share in a commonality with others in their sufferings. My belief is that this only comes about by those who have been touched by Love Himself in some fashion or form. \u00a0Love on this level is the beginning, but it is a supernatural characteristic. When I feel empathy towards another I am striking a chord in my own life of my own suffering in the past or present. But it rarely moves anyone to real action that requires me to get involved. \u00a0It\u2019s like I want to eliminate the suffering of others but I don\u2019t know how to do it without conflicting with my own personal life.<\/p>\n

2. Sympathy<\/strong><\/em>: the inability to no longer sit by as a bystander and watch others suffer. In this stage we possess the mindset to feel WITH you<\/strong>. \u00a0So now our motivation is to get up close and personal and be one with you. In this level of the process you actually suffer when others suffer, and rejoice when others are honored.<\/p>\n

3. Compassion:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is the surrendered path of life that live to feel AS you<\/strong>\u2026..and seek to eliminate the suffering and injustice of others.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t be discouraged, but rather keep cooperating with the process\u2026<\/p>\n

In the words of Eminem,<\/p>\n

In my shoes, just to see what it\u2019s like to be me
\nI\u2019ll be you, let\u2019s trade shoes
\nJust to see what it\u2019d be like to feel your pain
\nYou feel mine, go inside each other\u2019s minds
\nJust to see what we find
\nLook at life through each other\u2019s eyes
\nBut don\u2019t let em say you ain\u2019t beautiful
\nThey can all get lost, just stay true to you
\nDon\u2019t let em say you ain\u2019t beautiful<\/p>\n

They can all get lost, just stay true to you<\/p>\n

Eminem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my shoes, just to see what it\u2019s like to be me I\u2019ll be you, let\u2019s trade shoes Just to see what it\u2019d be like to feel your pain You feel mine, go inside each other\u2019s minds Just to see what we find Look at life through each other\u2019s eyes But don\u2019t let em say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,6,7,11,13],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}