‘God bless all of you’

Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, brought the house down at State Farm Stadium at a packed remembrance ceremony honoring his legacy.

Wearing all white, and choking back tears as she slowly approached the podium on stage to raucous applause, she told the crowd of more than 70,000, “God bless all of you for coming here from all over the world to honor and celebrate my Charlie.”

“When you say ‘here I am, lord, use me,’ God will take you up on that. And he did with Charlie,” she said, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue.

“Eleven days ago, God accepted that total surrender from my husband and then called him to his side,” she continued.

“On the afternoon of Sept. 10, I arrived at a Utah hospital to do the unthinkable: To look directly at my husband’s murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life, I felt everything you would expect to feel. I felt shock, I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn’t even know existed,” she said mournfully.

“But there was something else, too. Even in death I could see the man that I love. I could see the single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about — now he knows, sorry baby.”

She said she saw on his lips “the faintest smile,” which she said “revealed a great mercy from God in this tragedy,” and said at that moment she realized he hadn’t suffered.

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