Several times each week, I write for our daily devotional at Links Players International. The devotion I have prepped for Thursday seems appropriately shared with you here:

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe we will also live with him. (Romans 6:8, NIV)

It has been an easy week for the sportswriters. The contrasts between winner Phil Mickelson and the returning Tiger Woods on Sunday in Augusta made it so. One local writer where I live spelled out the contrast succinctly: “Even if Tiger had won, his wife would not have been there to hug him.”

And then there was the contrast between Woods and fellow non-winner Lee Westwood in their post-round interviews. Only one was gracious—exceedingly so, as a matter of fact. There’s something quite redemptive, I realized again, about a loser who can wear a smile.