Up to you — Responsibility

Daily Meditation 1,088–2/27/2025

Whenever bad things happen, do we sigh, stop, and then accept responsibility?

You’re pouring your morning cup of coffee when you splash it on your hand. It surprises you, so you drop the glass carafe and make a tremendous, dangerous mess.

Enraged, you stomp upstairs, down the hall, and swing the door open so hard that the knob puts a hole in the wall. Your poor 4 year old leaps awake and begins crying as you scream at them for the coffee pot. “You should’ve been there to help me with it!”

Then, you pull out your phone and call your parents. It’s 5:52am for you, but 4:52am for them — naturally they answer in a panic. Who calls at such an hour? “Because you haven’t come visited your grandchildren, I broke the entire pot of coffee! This is all on you, mom!”

Finally, toddler in pajamas, still sobbing and confused, you fling them in the car and drive to your spouse’s workplace. They get off third shift in just a while, but this can’t wait. Squealing onto the sidewalk in front, you pound on the front door glass, child in tow. After a minute, a very perplexed man comes and peeks through the door. You shove them aside, going in, shouting “WHERE IS DANIEL?!”
He finally comes, a very worried look — “Is everything okay? Why are you both here?!”
With a massive slap across…