Easter is a time of year that calls on all of us to reflect on our lives. What footprints will we leave on the sands of this earth? How often can we say we carried someone struggling to face another day? Did we pay it forward and help our fellow man?

Were we honest? Did we steal? Did we have the courage to stand up when called upon to do so?

In other words, did we live our lives by the Golden Rule and treat others the same way we wanted to be treated?

All very interesting questions that all of us should be asking ourselves as we celebrate this most holy of days in the Christian calendar.

Jesus didn’t just walk among us before offering himself to save us from our sins. He taught us lessons that transcend the ages — regardless of culture, religion or socio-economic background.

And yet, we live in an age and world where hate speech becomes more and more acceptable, bribery isn’t so bad so long as you’re a celebrity applying to college, even looting and riots are sort of understandable if you’re protesting.

Really?

Whatever happened to the moral compass Jesus left us with when he left this earth? The one that steered us clear of trouble simply asking us to stop long enough to ask ourselves if the words we’re about to say or the actions we’re going to take would hurt if directed our way.

Jesus taught us to be patient with our fellow man, not turn our back. He taught us to be charitable, not steal from charities. All very simple, very basic lessons, and yet they seem to be diminishing daily. Kids settling their differences with guns instead of words. Social media trolls hiding behind the safety of the Internet. People with more money than most of the country’s citizens see in a lifetime greedily taking more.

In this time of celebrating the greatest miracle to ever occur, let’s stop and remember the greatest lessons ever learned.

New York Times Bestselling author Robert Fulghum boiled it down in his famous opening essay of his 1986 book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” Fulghum reminded us all those years ago to “Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re SORRY when you HURT somebody.”

And while his popular essay goes on to recite dozens of other kindergarten lessons most of us still use today — washing our hands, flushing the toilet, taking a nap — these seven sum up many of those same lessons Jesus gave the world thousands of years ago.

One of Jesus’ most frequently repeated quotes comes from the Gospel of John: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” It’s not a call to martyrdom. Rather, it’s a call to live day by day with humility and love for one another, not so selfishly or driven to be first. By this path may we find contentment in life together, emulating his example.