Responsibility

[caressa]

Today's thought is:
Responsibility

I believe that God created people. Although we could have been made like puppets on a string, we were given the capacity to think and behave as we choose.

If what I believe is true, then each person must be responsible for his or her own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Help me to remember that I cannot be responsible for other people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Help me to understand that I cannot control the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of others. Help me to understand that the most I can do to help others is to be a role model and a mirror to others so that they may choose to change.

Today, help relieve me of the belief that I should be responsible for changing someone other than myself.


You are reading from the book:

Help for Helpers by Anonymous

Being a caretaker all of my life, I used for many years because I could never quite manage my life and that of those around me. It was a false sense of responsibility and so many times it wasn't mine to take on. Because I could never measure up, I always looked for something outside of myself to make me feel better, to affirm my worth, and look for the validation and approval I always seemed to need.

When I become needy, I become greedy. When I become greedy, I lose my integrity and all sense of responsibility.

[preciouschihua]

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