But of course they do.
Jesus put a positive spin on it when he said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
But we don't.We've been burned too many times, giving openly and honestly to others only to have them not give back to us in kind. The result is we are taken advantage of, hurt and left to clean up other people's messes.
Every time it happens, we add another brick to the wall we build to protect ourselves from such things. The number of people we trust grows very small. We hoard our feelings for ourselves. Our community is tiny. The love we do give away is questioned, guarded and reserved for only a few. Most can count the true loves they have on one hand.
The "Golden Rule" is in every single one of the world's religions yet it remains the least practiced form of faith.
It ends up pissing everybody off so to hell with it. We take the rest of the world's religions except this part. It makes religion so much easier, leaving plenty of room for intolerance, bigotry, exclusion, hate and terrorism. Now that's how we like our religion!
If it weren't so then why is much of it in the world today.
Last night Sarah and I sat in the red room shell shocked for what others had done unto us that we hadn't done unto others.
After letting our anger out, continuing to say to one another "I'm not mad at you! I'm just mad and don't have anybody else to mad at right now!", we began to calm down. I grew contemplative as Sarah continued to process things that had been done leaving us with a great deal of unexpected things to do.
I had a hard time sleeping last night because of it all. Laying there staring at the ceiling fan, Goddess laid on my side of the bed licking my hand and John Lennon kept singing in my head.
"Don't let me down."
"Don't let me down."
It is a shame that we do let each other down as a daily practice of our faith.
It's more than a shame.
It's just another brick in the wall.
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