# @jacquelineripstein on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DO3wrLujnVN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61742469-jacquelineripstein-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-21T16:38:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jacqueline Ripstein (@jacquelineripstein) — https://gondola.cc/jacquelineripstein

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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 God ignites within us. ✨

From that suffering a mission was born. I came to understand that my purpose was not to be destroyed by tragedy, but to transform it into Light. Out of that came new paintings and my book, as portals that have helped heal my own soul and the souls of many others who also carry invisible scars.

🙏 My message is for Erika and for all families and widows of a bullet
who have lived through this same tragedy:

✨ Love never dies.
✨ The Light of God makes us stronger and grows brighter in moments of pain; it can never be extinguished.

✨ Art and faith can become bridges to heal, to reconnect, and to embrace life again.

Today I embrace every family carrying this wound in their hearts. May you find in faith, in art, and in hope the strength to remember that Light always prevails.

With humility, I place Charlie Kirk and Erika in the embrace of the Universal Mother, wrapped in the infinite Light of God. ✨🙏

#TributeofLight #JacquelineRipstein #ErikaKirk #CharlieKirk #Solidarity #EternalLove #HealingArt #TheArtofHealingArt #Faith #Hope

Our Lady of the Universe ©️1996 Jacqueline Ripstein – Oil & Mixed Media with Invisible Art & Light Technique™️

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