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CULPABILITY

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WHAT ARE WE CULPABLE FOR IN THIS LIFE?  WHO OR WHAT OR WHEN DO WE HAVE RESPONSIBILITY IN A BAD SITUATION AND TO WHAT DEGREE?  I BELIEVE IT IS HEALTHY TO BE CULPABLE WHEN IT S  APPROPRIATE,   GO BACK IN TIME FOR A MOMENT.  DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU HELD RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOMETHING BAD THAT’S HAPPENED OR HURT ANOTHER? 

WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS WHEN WE ARE CULPABLE AND WE AREN’T.  IF WE ARE NOT AWARE OF OUR CULPABILITY IN A SITUATION, HOW WILL WE EVER LEARN TO BE RESPONSIBLE OR GROW IN TRUTH INSIDE OURSELVES?  IF WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN THINGS ARE OUR FAULT INDIRECTLY OR DIRECTLY, WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE KIND OF CONSCIENCE WE HAVE IN LIFE?  WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE REALIZE WE ARE CULPABLE FOR A SITUATION OR AT FAULT IN SOME WAY? 

BEFORE WE BEGIN TO ADDRESS THEESE QUESTIONS, LET US TAKE A LOOK AT THE MEANING OF CULPABILITY IN OUR WEBSTER DICTIONARY AND THE DAILY WISDOM WORD MEANING OF CULPABILITY. 

WEBSTER DEFINITION OF CULPABILITY-1,  RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAULT OR WRONG;  BLAME.   

DAILY WISDOM WORD DEFINITION OF CULPABLILITY-1.  A DEGREE OF RESPONSIBILITY ONE HOLDS IF AT FAULT FOR HURTING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING.  2.  TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHEN WE ARE “AT FAULT” IN A SITUATION OR FOR HURTING ANOTHER.   

MATURE ADULTS NOT ONLY HAVE THE CONSCIENCE TO KNOW WHEN THEY ARE WRONG.   INSIDE THEY ALSO KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE THEY HOLD RESPONSIBILITY.  YES, THIS IS STEP ONE.  ASSESSING A SITUATION GONE WRONG AND TAKING INTERNAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT OUR PART IN WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED IS, BUT ARE WE ALSO TAKING EXTERNAL RESPONSIBILITY WHEN WE HAVE WRONGED ANOTHER INVOLVING SOME FOR OF REPERCUSSION APPROPRIATE TO OUR CULPABLITY?  WE CAN ONLY BE RESPONSIBLE TO “CLEAN UP AFTER OUR OWN MISTAKES. 

IT IS NOT OUR PLACE OR OUR LESSON TO LEARN FOR SOMEONE ELSE IF THEY DON’T ATTEMPT TO FIX THINGS WHEN THEY HAVE WRONGED ANOTHER OR BEEN WRONG IN A SITUATION OF ANY KIND, PROMPTLY.  IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE THE AMOUNT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DO WHAT WE CAN TO SALVAGE OR MEND THE SITUATION WITH WITH WAS HURT OR FIX WHAT WE CAN IN A SITUATION WE ARE NEGATIVELY TO BLAME FOR OR ARE AT FAULT FOR.  WE HAVE STEP ONE.  ASSESSING INTERNALLY THE CULPABILITY APPROPRIATE FOR A GIVEN SITUATION.  WE ALSO HAVE STEP TWO.  WE KNOW IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CLEAN UP AFTER OUR OWN MESSES.  WE EVEN HAVE A STEP THREE.  WE DON’T POINT FINGERS AT ANOTHER WHO DOES NOT HAVE THE CONSCIENCE TO REALIZE WHEN THEY ARE AT FAULT. 

WE ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE TO FIX WHAT WE ARE A PART OF.  WHEN WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE CAN, (STEP FIVE) TO FIX OR MEND THE SITUATION WE PROMPTLY TAKE THE ACCOUNTABILITY, REMEMBER THE MISTAKE AND THE LESSON LEARNED FROM MAKING IT, AND YES, MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE.  THERE IS NO REASON TO ASSUME GUILT FOR SOMETHING OR HURTING SOMEONE FOR ANOTHER PERSON. 

WE ARE NOT MARTYRS BUT MUST TRY TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND MAKE AMENDS WHEN WE ARE ALBE TO.  THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING ABOUT CULPABILITY TODAY.  I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS BENEATH THIS ARTICLE WHERE YOU SEE, “JOIN THE DISCUSSION” AND OPINIONS, DIFFERING OR NOT, IN THIS AREA.  IF YOU SIMPLY WANT TO LEAVE A POEM ABOUT CULPABLITY AND YOUR COMPREHENSION OF IT, THAT IS GREAT TOO.  FAVORITE QUOTE WORKS TO.  “IF WE CHOOSE NOT TO GET INVOLVED, ISSUES DO NOT GET RESOLVED”.  SAMANTHA 

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INNOCENCE

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HAVE YOU LOOKED IN THE EYES OF A CHILD RECENTLY?  SOMETIMES IT IS POSITIVE TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT AND LOOK AT “INNOCENCE” THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD.  INNOCENCE IS SOMETHING WE ARE BORN WITH.  INCAPABLE OF COMMITTING SIN, WE ARE BORN WITHOUT GUILT AND A SOUL, PERFECTLY INTACT. INNOCENCE APPEARS TO DWINDLE DAY BY DAY AS WE BEGIN TO AGE.  IN FACT, OFTEN LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT, WE LOSE ALL HOPE OF EVER REACHING OUT TO TOUCH INNOCENCE AS WE ONCE DID.   THE MORE sins we commit, the less innocent we stay.  

When I go to church is probably the closest I feel to innocence.  I feel like I have a new direction towards innocence when I go to church.  I feel that my soul gets purified, but prior to this, I feel regrets for all the mistakes I have made. Each mistake or enjoyment we have that is wrong to ourselves, carries literal “weight”.  “No matter how often we tell ourselves what we are doing isn’t hurting anyone, it still harms our soul of it purity.”

The regret I have are from the sins I’ve committed.  Perhaps I have hurt someone’s feelings and haven’t taken accountability for it. Perhaps I have justified my own sin and its burdens. Part of being innocent is being able to exercise forgiveness.  Before you can forgive others, you must learn to forgive yourself.  This requires honesty in your heart. Often the anger we are feeling toward others, is anger misdirected.  Perhaps underneath our blame towards others, we really blame ourselves.  Part of what creates innocence is knowing what simplicity is.  The innocent, our fabric of society, are always honest.  They aren’t capable of telling a lie.  They only know one thing;  how to tell the truth. 

My hope for each of us is that we can move as close to innocence as possible.  Have you ever noticed the more simple a lifestyle, the happier people seem?  You see, it is so true that the very things that can bring us pleasure, can often move us away from the feelings of wholesomeness and innocence.  Let us take a look at the definition of innocence now in our Webster Dictionary.  

Definition of innocence in the Webster Dictionary-1.  The state, quality, or fact of being innocent of a crime or offence.  2.  Lack of guile or corruption 3.  used euphemistically to refer to a person’s virginity. 

Daily Wisdom Words Definition of innocence-the feeling a child has before the process of corruption.  

Onc of the saddest things I ever have seen is a child approximately six years old, dressed in clothing barely bigger than that for a toddler in military outfits and a gun they are holding in their hand.  Their innocence they have such a limited time to enjoy anyway, is taken from them.  These children are victims of the saddest situation of all:  Wars they are forced to fight when they are taught to by adults. 

There are many ways to rob the innocence of a child.  When I see abuse or what I suspect is abuse with a child, my heart wrenches.  It is so very wrong, and the person administering the abuse is mentally sick themselves.  My point today on writing about innocence is enjoy it.  Relish is the feeling of innocence.  Consider more simplicity with your lifestyle.  The guilt associated with the pleasure we feel when we do something for short-term gain knowing no matter what justification we use that it is wrong, create the consequence of guilt.  Feeling guilt means you know the difference between right and wrong.  This is the opposite of violence.  

One  last thing I want to mention is the horrific acts that rob children of their innocence which go on in our world.  An act of violence as part of War is the most common of these violations and atrocities.  The most relevant of these cruelties towards children are the following:  1.  Recruitment of a child into war.   2.  Use of children in war. 3.  children being taught  how to kill. 4. sexual violence imposed on them 5.  abduction of a child. 6.  attacks on children when schools are bombed and hospitals demolished.  We can help to change this.  If each of us simply does one thing, (just one), I believe we can make changes for children helping them  from all six things I just listed.  You get more back than what it costs to give to a charity inside.  Perhaps you don’t have money.  Volunteer your time.  “Time can be our greatest ally or your worst enemy.”  We choose this. 

I wish in no way to lead others to believe I give of myself except through donations to charity and what I write.  I take the easy way out with prayer and send money to UNICEF for children, feeling most sorry for those children attacked in Syria during Chemical Warfare ordered in countries such as Syria by the leader of the country himself.  Life doesn’t have to be this ugly.  Let us do all we can to help others in small ways and big.  This is the closest you come to that amazing feeling of “innocence” with each good deed you do.  Do not confuse the feeling of innocence with naivety.  When we come closest to innocence, it is when we take positive action.  Thanks so much for reading.  Samantha Leboeuf

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