Responsibility
I just returned from teaching 9-11 year olds at the 50th Annual Green Lake Baha’i Conference. I previously posted about this and a friend who, when asked if she would join me in teaching, responded with the comment, “thank you for this opportunity to serve.” Part of my lesson was based on the idea of responsibilities that we have in life, to ourselves and to each other. I used the following quotes:
"Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God."
~ Abdu’l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 76
and
Thus every individual must bear his own responsibility, rather than someone else bearing it for him."
~ The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, p. 90
Through the process, I was reminded of the way that just as God is responsible to us, we are responsible to Him. I had been slacking on my daily posting to this blog, but I am hoping to renew my fervor for that activity now. Through many of the activities that I do, whether teaching classes, writing a blog, or coming up with new and interesting ways to have devotions, I feel they are all part of the creative plan that God has for me, and it is my responsibility to carry out that portion of His plan, because nobody else will do it for me.