This Friday ought to have been Charlie and Erika Kirk’s fifth wedding anniversary, but a sick, deranged leftist assassinated Charlie just for speaking truths that challenged the killer’s opinions. Yet Erika’s message on this heartbreaking anniversary was full of faith and a love beyond death.
Erika Kirk shared a moving video commemorating her brief but beautiful marriage to Charlie:
Even though our kids won’t see our love “grow old together” from an earthly stand point; they’ll see it from a Heavenly one. And I’ll tell them of our love story any moment I can.
— Erika Kirk (@MrsErikaKirk) May 8, 2026
Happy Anniversary to the love of my life. pic.twitter.com/PAXTyxm7ly
May 8, besides being the Kirks’ wedding anniversary, is the anniversary of multiple historic events, including Victory in Europe Day, and the birth of 20th-century American TV star and archbishop Fulton Sheen. I was reading passages from Sheen’s Three to Get Married when one quote seemed to me to encapsulate why Charlie Kirk was able to be such a wonderful husband and father:
Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God; each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays are to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes; and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes. The secret of happiness is for each man to live as close to God as he can, and he will thereby live closer to his neighbor.
After all, Charlie Kirk said he most of all wished to be remembered for “courage for my faith.” He and Erika made their faith the center of their lives, their love, and their mission. They were so close to each other because they were so close to God. Charlie's passion for spreading the Gospel and building up Turning Point USA into not only a political but a religious powerhouse was the result of his same virtues and beliefs that shaped his relationship with Erika and their children.
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At Charlie's memorial, Erika Kirk recalled while weeping, "I will miss him, because our love and our marriage were beautiful, and they still are.” She shared their “little secret, it was love notes. Every Saturday he wrote one for me and he never missed a Saturday." Charlie would tell her "how grateful he was for me and our babies,” and “he’d always end by asking ‘please let me know how I can better serve you as a husband.’" But Erika also remembered when Charlie announced he had surrendered himself entirely to the will of God, because "more than anything, Charlie wanted to do not his will but God’s will."
The closer Charlie was to the Divine Sun, the more brightly he shone, the more love he had to share with others. In fact, Charlie's faith and his success in sharing it with others were part of what infuriated LGBTQ radical Tyler Robinson to the point of murder.
We must take courage and renewed faith from Charlie's sacrifice as Erika did. It was his faith that inspired Charlie to go to the places where people most hated him and his views, to speak truths which ended up costing him his life. It was his faith that made him so beloved among millions of young people. It was faith that spurred Erika to forgive her husband's assassin, an extraordinarily generous and Christ-like act. Their love is a love beyond death, just as Christ's love on the cross was a love beyond death.
