Sometimes the simpler the remedy, the harder it is to follow. So many of our interpersonal conflicts, arguments, animosities, and needless sufferings have a simple remedy: Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. Our difficulty in applying this remedy is that it is deceptively simple and in fact requires a complete inner transformation—one that unfolds in three stages. It begins with the most basic step: not doing to another what you would not want done to you. Thus, for example, one refrains from striking a brother or sister in anger. The second stage of transformation is deeper: refraining from speaking ill of the one who has become the object of our anger. And finally, the third and most demanding stage is to no longer even think ill, of the one we blame for our anger. That this transformation is arduous is acknowledged by Jesus’ insistence that doing to others whatever we would have them do to us encompasses the entirety of the Law and the Prophets. May this Lenten season renew in us the desire and resolve to submit to the Spirit’s transforming work within our hearts, so that we may finally know the joyous freedom of doing to others only what we ourselves would hope to receive.