It’s striking that the very first post Charlie Kirk’s wife chose to share was Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

There’s something deeply encouraging in that in an unshakable declaration that in the chaos of life, refuge and strength are not abstractions but rooted in God Himself. Yet at the same time, the choice of this verse carries a tragic weight. For someone’s first words to the public to be this psalm hints that trouble was not a theory but a reality already pressing in. It’s the paradox of Christian hope: the verse comforts precisely because it acknowledges suffering, and it shines most brightly against the backdrop of pain.