text: The sense of accountability | CBCPNews
  "From everyone who has been given much, much will be required. And from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded." (Lk 12,48) Words of Christ that clearly tell us we need to sharpen our sense of accountability. If in our ordinary businesses, we have to do some serious accounting, it should be much more when what is involved is our own personal spiritual life. Nothing can be more serious than our spiritual life.
  We should expand and deepen our sense of accountability to cover not only our businesses and other earthly concerns, but also our spiritual life. We should be accountable not only to ourselves, to our family and to some other earthly superiors, bosses and authorities, but also and most especially to God. After all, he is the original and ultimate boss, our common father and creator of all. And, of course, the parameters and standards to be used should not just be the temporal and worldly, but rather the spiritual, moral and supernatural. We need to educate ourselves in this sense of accountability proper to us.
  Let's pray that this sense of accountability be imbued into our lifestyle so that things would really go well for all of us. This may be a quixotic dream for now, but we can always give it a try, starting with ourselves and spreading it little by little with those