If everyone followed,
the rule that is golden
then to these words
they would feel beholden.
If you want to be forgiven,
you must learn to forgive
if you want encouragement
affirmation you must give.
If you feel hurt and wounded,
in need of a gentle touch
you will need to be sensitive
when to pain, others clutch.
If need to be understood,
you must show others grace
if you want compassion
mercy you need to embrace.
If you don’t like gossip,
then watch what you say
If you don’t want to be judged,
then turn your cheek away.
If you’re in need of friends,
with sympathetic ears
yours too must be willing
to be thoughtful to all it hears.
If you want to be treated kindly,
you must first treat other’s so
for, I’ve read it in the Bible . . .
we shall reap what we sow!
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Matthew 7:12
King James Version
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so to them:
for this is the law and the prophets.”
Copyright 2014
Deborah Ann Belka