Whatever is happening in your life, in someone else’s life, or in the world that has a direct impact on you, use it as fuel.

Use it as fuel for good, to make you do good and be better.

Use it to make the lives of those around you better.

Use it to illuminate a bright light, rather than a dark shadow.

You never know the difference a single interaction with someone can make; it might make or break them in that moment.

You could be their lifeline, their lifeboat, their lighthouse.

Choose the light, always. 

We Are the Lightkeepers

In this current moment, when darkness seems to envelop the world surrounding the death of Charlie Kirk, I am reminded daily to trust in divine intervention and have faith.

Sometimes, things happen to awaken humanity even further.

Without the adversity, we wouldn’t evolve collectively as a species, which is why we are here after all.

I am reminded of the ones who risk their lives to serve this purpose and help grow this mission. Thank you for shining your light so bright. You won’t be forgotten, and your light will continue to shine.

We will echo your light.

We are the lightkeepers.

A note as I close: I know Charlie Kirk meant very different things to different people. I haven’t written about his politics, and you don’t have to share his views—or mine—to have sat with what came before. This was about light, loss, and the way one life can call the rest of us to shine a little brighter. I believe we can honour a person’s humanity even across deep disagreement. That belief is part of why I wrote this at all. However you see the world, may you carry your light forward.