Jewells of Thought

Already three articles from this day have been posted. Still though more happened. My brother, the father of my niece became my age we are 18 months apart. While we were eating his birthday cake at nearly 2 pm Charlie Kirk’s Memorial began with Praise and Worship Music by several popular Christian artists.

Honestly I couldn’t tell if it was just coming on or I was watching what had already happened. Somehow I realized it was in realtime. It was difficult not feeling the presence of God in that stadium from start to finish. I was teary-eyed all through it listening to the Gospel Message being preached my countless speakers from the Turning Point family and the Trump Administration who literally had Charlie to thank for their positions in the cabinet and various staff offices. It was incredible to watch and observe.

For so many years in school, history and reading whatever I could get biography wise on the American Revolution and World War II, I read over and over again. Knowing the founding of this country was something pressed on my heart. American Exceptionalism, is what I grew up hearing about and believing, I hadn’t seen that spirit as degraded and as low in self esteem as in more recent years. Yet I thought I took it more seriously than others interviewing World War II Veterans assisted with my passion of conserving those individual stories especially the ones in my family and my church family. It felt like a calling, one that Grandpa Freddy had lovingly cultivated in me. Telling stories on this platform still feels like Papaw’s ability to incite this uncanny way of stepping back to see the bigger kaleidoscope view of an issue to the little minutiae of details.

The morning of the 21st was a missed Sunday School lesson. When I did later look at the lesson and what the title was I nearly teared up again. It pointed once again to the seismic shift that day that the Memorial was showing us Americans and the world for that matter. Charlie Kirk was making waves for God in ways that others had only dreamed and prayed to do and yet how did he do it! The title of the lesson that morning was Rebekah’s: A Decisive Woman of Courage and Faith, yes it was a woman in our book, but it doesn’t matter who had the courage and faith those words are the facts. Charlie has been talked about having said he wanted to be remembered for those two main words, his courage and faith. It was amazing to see those words; especially because that had been printed for months before Charlie’s death.

God’s timing is impeccable if not mesmerizing.

Charlie Kirk. Courage and Faith. Rebekah also responded to God’s call in her life. In Genesis 24-27 her story shows her willingness to allow God to fulfill His will in her life. Charlie and Rebekah in different times chose to lead lives of moral character befitting their status in the beginning of Genesis creating Abraham’s new nation and his in the American Revival of the idea of American Exceptionalism and of God-fearing young men and women finding their purpose from God.

When I see Rebekah here I also think of Erika, Charlie’s widow. Her courage and Faith have brought her to this place in time as well. She was also made for this moment, another version of Esther for our times. The courage to speak no less than 48 hours after her husband’s death to the nation and the world that took guts… it took having a relationship with God and His grace that got her through that experience. An experience she met with fierceness and a spine of steel with the heart of a woman who loved as fearlessly as her husband.

Watching this amazing woman, even as I, an older woman, has learned quite a bit from her videos. I am also super excited about the alternate Super Bowl Show she is endorsing from Turning Point. From all the posts I have seen it will be an amazing night to not watch football and to watch this show instead. The courage from one person is infectious and incredible to watch like it has been happening since September 10th.

The Lord is still working in mysterious ways even now in the year 2025. What do you need your Courage and Faith to do!