Golden rule

He said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?

You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.

If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.

I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”

John 13:12b-15

Jesus set a precedent for us quite a few years ago. He gave us our oh so cliche "golden rule:" Treat others the way you want to be treated. Just like every kindergarten teacher who bestows that little phrase upon us, Jesus presented us with the most simple way of life: to treat others (friends, strangers, enemies) in the same way he would treat us and us him. He even gave us a visual, the washing of the feet, that is still reenacted at Holy Thursday mass every year, all over the world. As you pass by someone tomorrow, look at them. Look at them in the same way you would look at Jesus. Treat them. Treat them with the same gestures you would if he or she were Jesus. Try to do that once a day, then work it up to all the time. Think about it, how often do you really look at someone and really treat them in the same exact way you would want to be treated? Room for improvement, right?