Your looking for explanations is the same as looking for excuses. Explanations are excuses. There is error in thinking you require explanations as much as there is error that you require excuses. I understand how much you want to understand. You care deeply to know why this and why that. You cannot at present untie and examine all the connecting threads. From the level of your consciousness, there is no explanation, beloveds. There is no reason.

When you are in a vastly higher state of consciousness, then you will not ask for explanation. You won't need a reason, and you won't need an excuse for what occurs or does not occur. You will not need justification. You will not ask Me or anyone to justify anything at all.

Presently you crave explanations in order to find justification for that which is inexplicable to you. You are not yet capable of understanding. So move on. You can understand the value of moving on.

Never make excuses for yourself or anyone. Let other people go, yet hold yourself accountable. You are responsible for your errors, no excuses. Do not let yourself off the hook so easily. If you don't live up to a commitment or a promise, you let something else intervene. Excuses are a dime a dozen, and they don't mean a thing. When all is said and done, you chose not to do something you promised. You chose. You chose your convenience over a commitment you made. You decided your commitment was not important enough to fulfill after all. Most of all, when you do not fulfill a promise, you have let yourself down. Regardless of your excuses, you will not have as a high an opinion of yourself. You will know you were a laggard.

Now I know you're going to tell Me what if you become ill or have an accident or there is an electrical outage, etc. Of course, I am excepting such events. I am speaking of events that are within your province. I hear the things you say: "It got late. I ran out of time. I had to take care of something else. I had to do something for someone else first. I had to finish something." The list of excuses and justifications goes on and on. Beloveds, you don't fool anyone. Maybe you fool yourself. You don't like to think that you are responsible for something you said you'd do and didn't do, and so you make yourself irresponsible.

I ask you to no longer make excuses for yourself. In making excuses, you make yourself weak. When you make an excuse, you are saying you are helpless. You are saying you cannot accept responsibility. You are saying someone or something is at fault, but, above all, not you.

Is someone else responsible for believing in you? Too often, beloveds, that is their mistake. Yet their mistake was in your favor. Your mistake of not delivering is in your perceived favor, yet it is no favor to you any more than it is to anyone else.

Now, you may say, "But, dear God, there really are times when I have not planned well, and I cannot do what I said I would do when I said I would." When this occurs, tell the person waiting for you ahead of time that you will be late. At least in that, you are taking responsibility. It is responsibility I am asking you to take. If you make a promise, be the kind of person who keeps it. Or don't make the promise, beloveds.