Excuses make Baby Jesus cry

Truth is, we'll always have excuses for ourselves. For our animus and recrimination. For our fear and desire to overpower. For our greed and our selfishness. For our dishonesty and our cruelty.

One thing we really will always have plenty of is excuses.

And we can always act on those excuses. Or we can take some more honest responsibility in the world. Fundamentally, those are our two most important choices we have.

And the world will now and forever be a consequence of our taking responsibility for the choices we make with this one shot at life's adventures we have or our making excuses for why we cannot.

Me, especially. Says the now and future king of excuses.

That's what the world is, these days. And always. That's a fact.

Whether we want to take responsibility for that fact or not.

But what tomorrow is depends entirely us.

Whether our excuses have anything to say on the matter or not.