Blame Shifting.
MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️:
Still hangin’ in Numbers. My thought this morning as I’m reading is that grumbling, complaining, and BLAME-SHIFTING is an age old dilemma.
“Blame-shifting is a manipulative tactic where a person denies responsibilities for THEIR actions, mistakes, or abusive behavior by transferring the blame onto someone else.”
The people were blaming Moses, God…heck, anyone else they could find to blame…instead of taking a look at themselves and asking what did WE do to contribute to this situation or what can WE do to get ourselves out of this situation. They were literally like “hey! YOU haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey…YOU haven’t given us a new homeland…”
On and on and on they went…ungrateful for what had already been given to them and blaming others for what had not yet been given to them.
Personal responsibility is not the norm. Taking a good, hard look at ourselves and the situations we are in is a sign of maturity. Looking at others and finding ways to blame them is a sign of immaturity.
One posture moves you forward. One keeps you stuck in unhealthy patterns…going round and round…sometimes for generations…or in the case of this story…for about 40 years.
Want to get unstuck? Look inward, not outward. Stop complaining, start doing. Stop blaming, starting owning.
xox.eb