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Have you ever really messed up in a friendship? Maybe you hurt a friend in a big way. Or maybe you were making bad decisions your friend had to call you out on. At some point, we all wander off course and need a little grace from our friends. I think the simplest definition of "grace" is "giving someone a gift they don't deserve" — like kindness, patience, forgiveness, or a second chance. In the book of Acts, a guy named Saul experienced God's grace in a big way when he was forgiven for doing some pretty terrible things. After God's grace changed his life, he committed his life to giving that same grace to others.

In the same way, when we recognize the grace given to us, it becomes much easier to offer grace to others when they mess up. No friend is perfect (and neither are you), but real friends show each other grace when a friend messes up or causes pain.