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Brit’s son committed suicide in 1998. (I remember the day Tony Snow told viewers on FOX News Sunday. He did it with the eloquence we all miss so very much.)

Anyway, I look at what Brit said this past Sunday though the prism of what he has experienced as a father.

I remember that day too--and how many of us here on FreeRepublic (which had just started up around that time) wanted Mr. Hume to know he, and his family, were in our prayers. I also remember reading something here on FR, not too long ago, that said it was after Sandy's suicide that Brit became a Christian.

Like George Bush, Brit Hume understands that being a Christian is more than just having an ideology; it involves a personal relationship with a heavenly Father whose own Son came into our world to perform a divine mission to "preach good news to the poor", "to bind up the broken-hearted", and to "proclaim freedom to the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners". (from Isaiah 61:1)

Christ accomplished this mission by obeying the will of His Father--even unto death on a cross--so that though our "sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow".

When one experiences the power of this Amazing Grace, as Brit Hume no doubt has, it is difficult to keep silent about about it, no matter how "politically incorrect" it might seem, because it brings such Comfort to a sorrowing heart, especially one that--perhaps like that of Tiger Woods--is suffering not so much from having received a deep wound, as having inflicted it.

May God bless Brit Hume for having the courage to "confess Christ before men". And may God help Tiger Woods to have the courage to confess his need, not for more money, more trophies, more women, more earthly treasure, but for the heavenly treasure of God's grace and mercy, offered freely through faith in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.