BE THE GOOD
Charlie Kirk
was probably at the top of the list of people who did not deserve to die the
way he did. All he wanted to do was meet
people where they were. To join the
conversation already happening in their minds, and to try his hardest to
persuade them to the points of view he believed to be right, and good.
Charlie was
a beautiful and unique soul. More than
anything, my heart cries out for his precious children and beautiful wife. He left them with a foundation to build on
that will last them a lifetime, but that is a small conciliation prize for the
guiding light they have lost. My best
hope for them is that they will remember his example and strive to live by it
for all the days of their lives.
But a moment
this dark cannot be without a light. It
falls to all of us now to pick up the torch Charlie set ablaze. It falls to us to light the torches of as
many of our fellow Human Beings as we possibly can.
I know that
many of us know someone who thinks that the world is a better place now that
Charlie has been taken out of it. Some
of us even know people with a much bleaker outlook than that. Those people have found themselves in a pool
of darkness that is far blacker than even our grief. I know it would be easy to fall into hatred
against those people. But to do that
would be to dishonor the legacy Charlie built in his short 31 years on this
Earth.
I call on
all of us to choose EMPATHY over hatred and anger. Talk to those people. Try to reach them in their moment of utter
blackness. For they are more in need of
the light than many of us can possibly imagine.
Not all of them are ready to be reached.
Not all of them are ready to start their long and arduous climb out of
their own darkest moment. Try
anyway. Because to try is the right
thing to do.
And if you
cannot reach them, then it is okay to love them from a distance, for now. God is looking for them. God is waiting for the moment they learn how
to listen when He speaks. So, try. And if they aren’t yet ready, then leave them
in God’s capable hands, and try again with the next one.
It is time
for all of us to be unafraid. To be
bold. It is time for the TIDE OF
HUMANITY to RISE in utter defiance of those who would see us tear each other
apart.
It is time
to GO FORTH AND BOLDLY BE THE GOOD.
