Our Lady of the Universe ©️1996 Jacqueline Ripstein – Oil & Mixed Media with Invisible Art & Light Technique™️ ✨🙏 Tribute of Light 🙏✨ Today I want to share from the depths of my soul. Seeing Erika Kirk face the loss of her beloved Charlie to a bullet made me relive the greatest wound of my life: when a bullet took from me my husband, the love of my life. That heartbreaking moment changed everything. I had to learn to hold myself together for my daughters, and I discovered that surviving is not just breathing… it is choosing to rise each day, even when the pain feels unbearable. It wasn’t just one bullet, but the bombardment that followed: the stares, the judgments, the harsh words of those who never knew my truth. That echo of misunderstanding weighed as heavily as the wound itself. And yet… from those ruins my strength was born. The bullet that tried to destroy me became the fire that forged me, the voice that now lifts my soul to proclaim: ✨ No one can extinguish the Light that...