A doctor struggled with how he should break the news to the unfortunate man.

“Sir, I’m sorry; it is the worst possible outcome we could have imagined. Test results indicate that you have rabies. We will do everything we can to make you comfortable. But I cannot give you false hope. There is nothing we can do to cure you.

My best advice is that you put your affairs in order as soon as possible.”

The infected man sat there for a moment and then asked the for a pen and some paper.

About an hour later the doctor returned. The man was still writing furiously.

“I’m glad to see you are writing out your will with such care,” the doctor said.

The man looked up from the page and said, “Oh, this is not my will. This is a list of people I want to bite before I die.”

You may have a similar list.

You may not have written it down, but you’ve composed it in your head.

Your list includes a brother or sister, a friend or coworker, a parent or grandparent, or maybe a stranger you believe has wronged you in some way.

Maybe you have been a victim of abuse.

For others, there are no specific names or faces, just a gnawing bitterness at life, God, or people in general.

We have seen too many times the mass killings of innocent people by those, who often suffer from mental illness, nurtured a root of bitterness.

The thing these mass shootings have in common is the rabies-like disease of bitterness.

Join us as Dr. Chuck Jonas shows us how we can move from bitterness to forgiveness.