First, an explanation for the long dry spell in doing anything here but promote books: I’ve been making more audio books. Sadly, unless you hit an upper tier in publishing, it’s not very lucrative. Your book can have 5 star reviews and win awards, but it doesn’t pay for many dinners out with the wife unit. Audio books do once you hit a certain point. I’ve hit that point. As a result, the blog has not been very active and for that I apologize. I will try to do better.
I found out about Charlie Kirk being shot/dying while I was setting up a Salvation Army canteen to feed the poor last Wednesday. The two people working with me also got notifications on their phones about what had happened. We were all stunned and saddened. We prayed for him, and then mourned him when the news of his death erupted into our lives.
Charlie Kirk was everything I’d want to be when I grow up. He was young enough to be my son, but I watched, and listened to him in rapt fascination. His messages, his debate, his faith all touched me deeply long before his death. Never did I think, “This dude’s on drugs” and turn him off. Far from it, I often stopped whatever else I was doing and focused on the wisdom this young man provided. His faith in God reinforced mine and made me humbled in the glow of his biblical knowledge. Not the stuff phonies have with two or three scriptural quotes, but a coherent knowledge of God’s message. He was filled with the Holy Spirit in my opinion.
He left behind a wife and young children in the wake of his murder. He was assassinated because he was a brilliant debater and the left seems to resort to violence, or the imminent threat of violence, when they can’t win the argument.
I have been sad for the last 5 days in the wake of his death. I pray often during the day, and during the night when I awaken, for his wife and kids – and his parents. They lost a son. I have been praying a lot more as a result.
I try relatively hard to be a good Christian, but in reality I suck at it. I get off on tangents, I weasel word about things on occasion, and while I truly believe, I don’t go to the edge with that belief.
That changed last week. I will no longer hide my opinions as a Christian and a conservative. I will call out evil whenever I confront it. I realize this will likely cost me work and social acceptance. But if Charlie could lay down his life for those beliefs, I can be bold in my faith and conservatism.
Charlie was a man who inspired people around the world. In the days since his death people have marched in his name across the globe. #TommyRobinson took time from his rally in London to honor Charlie. I will as well.
You see, the truth, and good, cannot be defeated by our enemies. They can only be vanquished by our silence.
Silent no longer. God Bless the Kirk family and strengthen the rest of us to be as good a servant as Charlie Kirk. It’s the least we can do.
