Silenced. For the sake of freedom of speech. Ironic. This is America’s true turning point. How do people react in the face of one of their society’s members being brutally murdered. This is the struggle of our civilization, our basic humanity has been judged, and many have failed. Whether it was the slaying of the Ukrainian girl, the lack of response by the fellow passengers and the lack of outrage in its after math. Or the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the lack of empathy, sympathy, compassion. We learn a lot about the character of an individual of how they react when someone dies. Humanity failed. Or did it?
We see now the emboldening of millions as they rally in solidarity and awakening to what has occurred. The answer is clear. The song of the heart will not be stopped. When I heard about the tragedy, I felt I had to put down the beacon of hope, inspiration and light as there was no hope. I was wrong. Charlie Kirk actually taught us an important lesson of holding true to our beliefs, and speaking up. For if dialogue ceases, the eventual destruction of society occurs. It is healthier to argue and be heard than fester our opinions within.
We have seen the fate of those who killed Caesar as they danced about his dead body with vile and disgust. There are plenty of examples of the murder of public figures or regular folk and subsequent rejoicing that has littered our short history over the last several 1000 years, including the death of Christ. Where we fail is in our behaviors that kill our own divinity in our souls in all of these cases. Even when we see the downfall of someone else and are gleeful, this holds true.
To live our lives to its greatest potential is a universally given human right, yet few strive to ever achieve it, as we mumble around in frustrations and hesitations surviving quiet existences of desperation. Charlie Kirk did not. He filled his heart with his faith, and showed up with his mission of educating the youth. People who are celebrating his death say “ well we are sad about his death but he was….” STOP. You are not given the permission to have a sentence structure with the word “but”. A person has died for speaking up his truths against the insanity of the world. This is the reality of the present. He was politically assassinated for his speech. At what point do we realize that when someone is silenced, perhaps those words needed to be heard. When you cut out their tongue you give credence to the weight of the conversation. We killed authenticity. Yes “we”. This is everyone’s cross to bear. Those who did not listen and those who heard but did nothing to help change the world from spiraling out of control.
There is a powerful undercurrent that was disturbed. No protests, no violence, just vigils of light. That speaks volumes of how a society reacts in the face of people clapping and laughing like vultures and hyenas over a corpse. They should be ashamed at their vulgarity and responses. A man died. He widowed his wife and orphaned his children. Why? Because he chose to speak? Does that mean that we as a society are forbidden from expression? Or only express what the blind narrative chooses for us to believe? This is the view of those who say that it is at one owns peril to speak up in public. Really? So stay dumb and numb? Die for voicing an opinion? Are we living in a third world dictatorship? This is the sign of loss of our humanity.
There will always be someone who will take the fall for the assassination. There always is. Historically even since ancient times this is the way it “works”. To pacify the mobs. To balance an unbalanceable equation. Yet we will never know the truth. There will be a Manchurian candidate who takes the blame in any hideous act, but the sinister hand that played the game lies in secret. Instead we have displayed selective outrage. All life is precious and when snatched senselessly, it is a wrong by all standards.
This was not about the right or the left. This was a targeted attack on the field of intention, common sense and principle. The consciousness field that lies within all of us, regardless of our mind born opinions, is where the battle was waged. Pushed down into waves of shock, fear and disbelief. The field of integrity was tested. It replied back: we cannot be shaken when strengthened by love and faith. It replied: our convictions are not fragile and cannot be shattered. Those who remain closed to their intuition sensed this shifting field, and for those who did not or could not, they remain ignorant to their own hearts. A war of light and dark within and without brews the ethers and the earth.
His death has given a voice to a generation and set a movement of mortality in motion and on fire. A swift death from the shadows does not prove strength but a weakness. Heartbroken ? Yes. The weight feels unbearable when the same voices that pretend to speak of love and peace demonstrate the most hateful of intolerances. This is a spiritual war. I sense this is a turning point in human history as was the case with Gandhi, martin Luther king, Lincoln, Joan of Ark, and so many others. This is not comparing Charlie to them, but what all these people represented, that the human heart and voice cannot be silenced by those hiding in the dark.
The next crazed outrage on TikTok or social media thread will not wipe away so easily the many important principles that we hold dear. It is a time to not quickly forget, but remember as we would first responders, service men and women, parents, freedom fighters all who choose to help and sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. This is the tenant of humanity we are asked to cherish. We are invited to build our courage and act with humility. The future is our stewardship, and how we respond in these pivotal moments is being taken note of by the next generations with great caution. The conversations begin at home. What we teach our kids, will wire them for the future that they make. Our conscience is keeping a ledger of our integrities and our inauthenticities.
We say that this is not martyrdom, by those who do not understand sacrifice. For the ultimate victory is in giving up all of ourselves to our cause, even if it means losing our lives to the eternal truths. To those who celebrate anyone’s brutal death, even that of an enemy, simply demonstrates cowardice and one’s own fear of death. It is their shallow character that is revealed, nothing more. The further society drifts from truth, the more hate-speak occurs.
Perhaps it is not time to put down the beacon of hope, and instead rise up higher, shine brighter, with a stronger sense of purpose and inspiration. What is in our heart that we wish to fulfill before our time runs out. That is the legacy of Charlie’s death. Surrender to God and be the instrument of divinity. Speak up, express and be heard. We are all love in motion, it is time to start acting like it. The cost may be high for living truth and our callings, but it is the price we pay to be divinity in human form.
RIP Charlie kirk
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I love you
