Accountability - Choosing to Be Accountable

We don't like to be accountable.  We hate being called on the carpet or called out.  Often we prefer just to put our tail between our legs and sneak away to some place that no one will ever find us.  Or we choose to justify our actions, place blame, or write it off to a bad day or a bad week or a bad life.  We want to make excuses why it really wasn't all that bad, or that our intentions were good, or we were misinformed, or a hundred other excuses to keep us from having to be accountable.  We don't like to be accountable.

Being accountable means that we have to own our stuff.  We have to admit our mistakes, own up to our greed, face the music when we penned the lyrics, and simply say that we were wrong.  That's tough.  But it's needed.  We need to be accountable.  We need to own our mistakes.  We need to 'belly up to the bar' and admit that we made a poor choice.  And then we need to correct those errors despite the cost to us in doing so.  Look at our world today.  It's abundantly clear that we need to grow up and be accountable.  And that starts with each of us.