Jack of Harts

In this week of Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for Charlie.

He spoke in the most dangerous of places. Liberal colleges. He talked about God and Abortion and faith and anything else young men and women wanted to talk to him about. He answered their questions with grace and kindness. He always sought for a dialogue. Even when he got death threats for it.

He went into the lion’s den again and again and again. He was answering a question about transgender mass shooters when a trans-aligned shooter shot him in the neck and killed him.

He never stopped talking to them, and that’s why they had to kill him. They couldn’t out talk him, but they hated what he said so much that they had to silence him. In any way they could. So they killed him. And their joyous animalistic celebration of his death showed everyone who they were.

That’s not why I’m thankful for Charlie of course. I’m thankful because he gave us an example to live up to and those of us who are human are actually trying to live up to it.

He was a happy warrior who never stopped trying to reach out to those he thought could be turned to our side. And we should never stop.

Just like Charlie.