From Responsibility to Respond Ability

I shall drink from the responsibility of the choice I make.
~Howard Thurman

Sometimes responsibility seems to weigh heavy on my shoulders. Juggling meetings, shuffling phone calls, maneuvering traffic, changing appointments, playing with kids, and sometimes even believing that I simply have to perform magic every day. When situations and circumstances become overbearing, overwhelming and overpowering I need to remind myself to stop and to take a deep breath.

Knowing that I have choices is key to my ability to respond. It all starts with my willingness to accept that I am the cause in all matters of my life. You, me, we all are co-creators in the Spirit. As soon as I accept that I am a creative being who can catch a divine idea and sculpt thoughts into form, responsibility gets defined in a new and much brighter light. All the burden of tasks and guilt for not meeting my standards falls away. There is no need to place a label on things or to make an achievement a personal evaluation. 

As soon as I can see myself as the generator of my life's experience I know that I am responsible for it all the time. Whether or not I am conscious or unconscious of it, I am creating my life's path. Situations and circumstances are simply what they are and I get to look at them from my unique focal point of simply where I stand in the landscape of my own life.

In this context any burden dissolves into lightness and fear transforms into love, love for myself and others. Suddenly there is space, space to take a new step and move into a new direction. A direction where responsibility transforms into my ability to respond to all matters of life and I get to create from an expanded place called freedom.

Affirmation:
Today I accept the responsibility of my own choices and confidently walk towards my greater yet to be!