Account and Accountability!

Without accountability we not only stay in the “victim” mindset and role, it’s a slippery slope to transitioning into a perpetrator! Often the only difference in the abuses we may have suffered and the ones we inflict on our loved one and friends, is the details. The effect is still the same. Calling your behavior righteous indignation for what you’ve been through, does not give you “a-get-out-of -jail-card” for your mistreating someone else.

Past hurts and habits can holds us back and trip us up from becoming accountable. Bitterness and refusal to forgive, is like drinking poison and expecting other people to die! It won’t happen. But we sure can do a lot of damage to those we are suppose to love and who trust and depend on us for that love. We need to deal with our bitterness once and for all. And enjoy the sweet fruits of freedom that comes with being guilt free from not sliding down that slippery slope of not being accountable for our behavior and treatment of others.

A life lesson question that I’ve tried to live by; “If what was done to me didn’t feel good, then what would make me think it will feel any better if I do it to someone else?” Blessings, Maggie Miller