Turning Towards Purpose

On Sunday, I joined millions in watching the live memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arizona—Five full hours that felt both solemn and stirring. One part (of many, many parts) that really struck me was Erika’s video tribute. In it, Charlie shared a few lines that hit home—words that made me critically examine what I’m doing with my life.

All these video memorials and speeches on social media aren’t just tributes to the life of a gifted standard bearer for Truth; these recent days have been a wake-up call. I am left feeling like I need to do more, to live with more intention and purpose.

As Charlie has been proclaiming, our great nation stands at a crossroads, locked in a battle for her existence. For over a century, selfish, power-hungry men and women—driven by greed and ambition—have struck blow after blow, both from within and beyond our borders. The enemies of liberty have gained so much ground because instead of facing the defiant cry of a soaring bald eagle, they’ve easily exploited the slow erosion of the American Spirit—once forged in sacrifice, courage, and conviction by the hearts and souls of our grands and greats.

This insidious tide has swept across a distracted, disoriented, and complacent People. Of which I, too, am one. But let us be clear: this decline was not accidental. It has been engineered and orchestrated over many decades. And now, we see it. We feel it. We know it.

It is now the hour for us to rise from sleep.
Romans 13

Unmasking the Adversary

With the human eye we see a tiresome battle of right vs. left, rich vs poor, truth vs deception, reality vs relativism, modesty vs sexual depravity, big corporation vs everyone else. In a word, the battle lines are drawn between life and death and we each must choose our side.

…I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days…
Deuteronomy 30

Only with the eyes of your awakened soul can you see that this present darkness is not primarily a battle in the tangible realm between the good guys and the bad guys of the modern era. It’s an ancient and real spiritual war between good and evil. This raging clash has been unceasing from the first fall. It is not primarily a tangible war, and so it cannot be fought and won primarily in the visible realm.

For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 
Ephesians 6

I love The United States of America. I am grieved over what this nation has been reduced to over the past many decades. And for a minute, I started to feel ashamed of being American. I wanted to give up because things are so bad to the absolutely absurd degree. I told myself there is no way that we can ever regain the great American Spirit founded on Christian values. It’s impossible, we’ve drifted too far.

But then one terrible day this September, Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

I couldn’t stop listening to his words. I couldn’t stop thinking about his wife and young babies. I couldn’t stop crying and praying. I am one of the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions of people globally who felt the heaviness and grief of Charlie’s death in such a way that didn’t quite make sense for someone who didn’t know him personally. At first, I thought it was just me being my odd, sensitive self. Until I read about the same reaction and response in comment after comment after comment.

And now I see that everyone has been talking about Jesus, about the Gospel, and about faith. I am amazed!

O Lord my God, You have done many things— Your wonderful works and Your plans for us; none can compare with You. If I were to report and speak of them, they are more than can be told.
Psalm 40

That’s how I know Charlie’s work isn’t finished. God is still using him for His will. I bet God will ask Charlie to make an even greater impact from heaven than was the incredible work he accomplished in his brief 31 years on earth. And if there’s one thing we can count on, it’s Charlie’s work ethic—he never let the people of America down before, and he won’t start now.

Charlie risked everything in pursuit of Truth

Maybe you don’t read the Christian Bible. But surely you remember hearing and reading fairy tales? The fairy tales make grand and timeless stories, and even they tell of a Truth that is beyond us. The fairy tales point to the inevitable end: good always wins over evil, but not without suffering and loss. From our earliest years these stories teach us on which side of the battle to be. They whisper of a place so dreadful—hell—where torment and horror reign beyond imagination. Our innocent childhood wisdom knows it’s not the stuff of jokes or fantasy, but a sobering reality too terrifying to ignore. And if such evil exists, then so must its opposite: a realm of radiant goodness, a heaven so breathtakingly beautiful that its promise reshapes everything.

To truly believe in the chance of reaching that paradise is to see this life differently. Earthly pleasures lose their grip. Wealth fades in importance. Trials become bearable. For the soul convinced of heaven’s reality, every sacrifice becomes a seed—planted in faith, destined to bloom into joy a hundredfold. The reward awaiting us eclipses every cost, making even the hardest path worth walking.

Striking the Match

The promise of heaven has moved me to fill this blank page, willing to risk everything to be used for God’s will alone. I’m inspired by the life and martyrdom of this young, intelligent, and witty Patriot—a Christian family man whose legacy compels me to turn a corner in my own life. I desire to become a small but brilliant part of the global Turning Point that God is now ushering in in Charlie’s wake.

Charlie asked a question, and I feel compelled to answer—partly with this first blog post, which I’ve been putting off for more than five years. I’m a middle-aged Catholic convert, never married, and something of a lifelong nomad. My journey has been marked by every kind of poverty, and a trail of tears—some joyful, mostly sorrowful. I carry a story, and in time, I may share it. But Trijoh OneTrue isn’t about me. It’s simply my POV on the greatest story ever told—a two-thousand-year-old truth that still speaks powerfully into our modern age. My hope is to apply that truth boldly, urgently, and charitably to help awaken The People and work to preserve what is the greatest nation ever to exist. And I must begin now. Before it’s too late.

What can I do for America, Charlie?

From where I stand—weak, hopelessly flawed, and seemingly insignificant—it doesn’t seem like I can do much. But through the grace of God, I believe I can still make a difference. I may not carry a sword of steel, but I can wield the sword of the Spirit. My weapons are prayer, sacrifice, Truth and Love.

Thank you, Charlie. Because of your example, I have discovered something worth taking responsibility for: that is, my duty to enlist, on the side of Good, in the spiritual warfare for our great nation and all her souls therein.

The movement that has sprung up as a result of Charlie’s martyrdom is a sign of the mercy of God, no doubt. For the past few years, I have been thinking it’s too late, we’ve lost the fight for America. But Charlie didn’t think so and now we know he was right. With the wave of this revival-the consuming fire of this budding reformation of the hearts of Man-It is God saying to us through the written and recorded words of his faithful servant,

This isn’t the time to get complacent. It’s the time to press in. We have been given this opportunity to save the country and change the course of history. We must seize it.”

Dear Charlie, pray for me as I pray for thee and we shall meet merrily in heaven. Amen.