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Originally Posted by ManOfWord
If it is as it seems at face value, I stand by what I posted. It's a tragedy when you have an accident and your child loses its life in the accident. It's a tragedy when a mother rolls over on her baby. It's a tragedy when your child runs out in front of a car. It's tragedy when you take your eyes off your child for the tiniest moment and someone kidnaps them.
It is completely irresponsible to leave/forget them in a car. Call me hard all you want. If it were me, I'd say the same thing. It would be completely irresponsible of me to do that and I would deserve what came my way.
It would be devastating for me to fail greatly and it is quite possible. I would disappoint many people especially my family. That alone is an incentive to not to cross certain boundaries. I don't intend to play the part of perfection. In fact, my kids know all to well that Dad is NOT perfect. However, I do intend, God being my helper, to be their hero when it comes to fidelity to their Mother, the church I am privileged to pastor, and the community I am honored to serve. People need SOMEONE to look up to. HONOR and integrity need to be modeled somewhere. There are far more who are better at it than I, which I readily admit. But I still have a bullseye on the target and refuse to offer excuses as to why I didn't put a better effort on hitting it.
Until a person accepts personal responsibility for their actions, they can NEVER be what they or God wants them to be. They will only be a victim and victims have ZERO power over their circumstances. Victors, on the other hand, recognize they are broken, admit it, ask for help, listen to their helpers, do things differently and even when they fall, get back up again. A just man falls 7 times but rises up again.
I am the chief cheerleader for those who have fallen. I am also the chief critic when it comes to telling the truth in love as to why they've fallen. Leave one of those out and it's a "tragedy!"  |
Who is refusing to accept responsibility here??? Nothing of the sort has been said or implied. I guarantee you the lady we know that is nearly insane at this point in her life, has accepted responsibility. She lives with the responsibility every single day and with every single night that she can't sleep. And it's been YEARS!
So what about my examples of absent-mindedness? What about my driving to a house I'd lived in before and repeatedly trying to get the garage door opener to work? Was I being irresponsible? Was I somehow not being serious enough about life?
Again, any words to or about this man except passionate grief for him and heartbrokenness about what he's going to endure the rest of his life, are inexplicable to me.