The Best Man Holiday is one of my favorite Christmas movies. This sequel to the iconic work, The Best Man continues to wrestle with the themes of love, friendship, grace, and forgiveness. I confess that I often feel like a one-woman band when I encourage people to extend grace when interacting with others. 

In grace, I specifically note the aspect that manifests as forgiveness to those we deem unworthy or undeserving. I admonish us to extend grace (often coined as unmerited favor) to someone, not because they deserve it, but instead because we ourselves have needed grace manifesting as forgiveness in our own lives. How many times have we been the ones who needed to be forgiven (or receive the grace of a do-over) when our previous actions made it unmerited? Yet, in the Divine Spirit that is God, grace was given, and we were forgiven. 

We see this theme play itself out between Lance and Harper in, The Best Man Holiday. At first, Lance is unwilling to forgive Harper because of his one-time betrayal, yet he needs forgiveness for his transgressions during his early years with his (now) wife, Mia. We don’t give the gift of grace (and forgiveness) out of compulsion. Instead, I suggest we extend it because ‘it is but by the Grace of God’ that we have received forgiveness, restoration, and another chance in our lives, relationships, careers, etc.