If hurts where hairs would all look like Grizzlies.

This is Max Locato.

So many hurts.

When teachers ignore your work, their neglect hurts.

When your girlfriend drops you, when your husband abandons you, when the company fires you, it hurts.

Rejection always hurts.

People bring pain, sometimes deliberately, sometimes randomly.

So where do you turn? Hitman.com, Jim Beam and Friends,

pity party catering service? Well, retaliation has its appeal, but Jesus has a better idea.

Grace is not blind, it sees the hurtful well.

The grace chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.

Hebrews 1215 urges us to see to it that no one misses the grace of God,

and no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

You see, where grace is lacking, bitterness abounds.

But where grace abounds, forgiveness grows.

Forgiveness may not happen all at once, but it can happen with you.