One More For JC

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12) “Do onto others as you would have others do onto you.”  The Golden Rule.  The first time I ever heard it was in the 5 th grade when my elementary school teacher put those words up on the chalkboard with big block letters.  He never mentioned the author of the ‘Rule’, but it clearly was the motto he lived by, and wanted all of us 5 th graders to live by. Little does he know it, but my teacher made a huge impact on me.  As the years went by, every time I heard the Golden Rule mentioned, I thought of him and the motto he wanted us all to live by.  I did my best to live up to it in my relations with others – when I was selfish and hurtful - these words were always the ones I fell back on to apologize and ask for forgiveness. It wasn’t until college that I found out who the author of the Golden Rule was.  I was working my way through the gospel of Matth