It’s so simple, isn’t it? “Do to others what you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:14)  They call it the Golden Rule, because it can be so broadly applied. Though it’s found among the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, it’s not only a Christian, or Catholic rule. It could apply to any religion, Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu, or for people with no religion at all.

It’s a rule that stands out among all the teachings of Jesus.

It’s more than a rule for individuals, a norm for personal conduct. If it were adopted by the community of nations, it would bring peace to our world, fairness to the way we live together. It would bring equality to our present unequal world. How could the strong exploit the weak, if they did to others what they would have them do to them? 

“How would you like it if someone did that to you? How would you like it if someone thought that about you? How would you like it if someone wished that happen to you? It’s a rule so simple, yet we shy away from it from making it our own.

“Do to others what you would have them do to you.”