From Blame to Responsibility

“I will be careful to lead a blameless life—when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.” – Psalms 101:2 My third Biblical world-changer thought that you can incorporate to keep your mind healthy is to move from thoughts of blame to thoughts of personal responsibility. It may have been said a million times, yet even I can’t hear it enough. My teenage daughter constantly reminds me of the temptation to blame others, to blame society, to blame this or that. You’ll get nowhere with this approach. At a young age, I also learned this lesson. A guy went for a bench press max, and he missed the mark. As he got off the bar he kicked the bar like it was the bar’s fault. “It was a stupid and slippery bar,” he said. At that moment, I realized it wasn’t