Thank you for the honor to be with you on this deeply hopeful Weekly encouragement! Day! I hope this is truly a good day and that you are filled with hope. I understand that many of us have experienced the emotions of a national tragedy in the loss of a great friend, Charlie Kirk. I call him a friend, though I didn’t know him personally, just in connection to the truth he proclaimed. I admire his tenacity, courage, faith, intelligence, and ability to articulate well. He was bold and mature beyond his years, few years. I am sorry for his family. At the same time, I am encouraged for our society. The dark spiritual realm is heightening and revealing itself. In a different sense of perspective, it wasn’t a gun or a person that killed Charlie. It was an ideology that obviously comes from a dark and evil side of spirituality, obvious because of the need to inflict harm on another. What a stark contrast to a man who would sit openly and publicly, inviting people who were in opposition to his beliefs to ask questions. The contrast was the hiding and running, the network of plotting and planning the death of someone many of us held dear. I feel like it’s important to me to point out that there are evil spiritual forces at work in our world. We would be thinking and I would suppose this is an elementary concept, however, we are blaming those who are held captive by sin and these dark evil forces. Possibly Charlie, himself, would say that our call to action is to invite people into a conversation rather than blame them when they, themselves, are trying to find their way. Just like many Christians who were trying to find their way until they met Jesus. I think that is the movement? To go into the enemies camp and love them enough to tell them the truth by knowing why Jesus died and what he’s done for our lives. Just to proclaim without knowledge will not produce power. A heart of wisdom might teach us to offer the truth, something that comes to mind when I heard the verse, “teach us to number our days”. There’s a lot of work to do from here. Evil forces have become clear, and this allows us to know how to defeat them. Mainly loving people around us. I hope we can become a multitude of faithful, bold, fearless people who love people. I’m praying for you and for courage and comfort and strength because I love you.