Treat others as you wish to be treated

I like to be protected.  I like to be kept healthy.  I like to have energy.  I like to feel inspired. I like to be entertained.  I like to be encouraged.  I like to feel loved.  I like to feel like part of the team.  I like to feel like I am adding value.  I like having real hope.  I like to have a roof over my head and food on my table.  I like having the right tools to do the job.  I like not being limited to one field or one position in life.  I like having friends.  I like having opportunities for love.  I like being forgiven when I have made a mistake.  I like knowing what I have missed.  I like winning sometimes.  I like a good joke and I don’t like to be made fun of.  I like to work with others.  I like living in peace with other nations.  I like having a system where I feel like I can tell the truth without winding up in front of a firing squad.  I like when people speak up if they think we are about to drive off a cliff.  I like reconciling quickly.

I don’t like to be a doormat.  I don’t like my health taken from me to prove a point.  I don’t like being manipulated.  I don’t like being strung along.  I like my tools not to be messed with.   I don’t like being controlled by bad contracts.  I don’t like being forced to agree with something.  I don’t like being left at my mom’s house with no job and bad health for some political end.  I don’t like being put out on the street.  I don’t like being blamed for my failures and not being given a hand up.  I don’t like losing all the time.  I like my hard work to matter.  I don’t want to be handed a victory I didn’t earn, I don’t want to lose on a technicality, and I don’t want every win in life require me to earn it.  The last sentence defies logic a bit but I think God in heaven knows what I am saying.  I don’t like people preventing me from working.  I don’t like my friends, brothers, and sisters dying on the battlefield.  I don’t want anyone nailed to crosses or tortured for that matter.  I don’t like being left for years to think about the mistakes I have made as a lesson.

Now treat others like that.  Simple huh? (sarcasm).  Difficult but not impossible.  Without the help of God and others, improbable.  None of this is possible without love and reconciliation.