Erika Kirk joined Fox News’s Shannon Bream to discuss her life months after her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated while giving a campus talk on September 10. Bream broached the topic of what Kirk’s relationship is like with God now following the tragedy and what her conversations with God look like. “Quite frankly, they’re kind of the same. I talk to God … the same way: ‘God, use me. God, heal my heart,” she said. “You know my pain, you know the depths of my pain. Walk through this with me. Put the people in my path that will help heal me and guide me and direct me and keep me in lockstep with your will.’”

She affirmed her faith in God since losing her husband as well. “You trust in the Lord, and when you trust in the Lord, you do it. Faith is so powerful when it is lived out. God is good, and the world is evil. Don’t be surprised when the world acts like the world,” she said. “God is good. I have never questioned, ‘Why me?’ I always knew that my life was not just to be lived for me. We are here for a greater purpose, and Charlie and I both knew that.”

Things since her husband’s death have looked a little different, however, with Kirk stating she hasn’t taken her young child to a full religious service. “I did bring them to a daytime service at one point. But, when it comes to Sunday or Saturday worship, when I’ll go to a physical church, I choose not to bring my children,” she said. “I do not need the photos of my children. I would like to keep some things in my life very private. I want my babies to have a childhood. I do not need them to be dragged through the mud on social media.”

Despite losing her husband to gun violence, Kirk has affirmed her support for the right to bear arms. “What I’ve realized through all of this is that there will always be individuals who resort to violence. And what I’m afraid of is that we are living in a day and age where they think violence is the solution to them not wanting to hear a different point of view,” she said last month. “That’s not a gun problem — that’s a human, deeply human problem. That is a soul problem, that is a mental … that is a very deeper issue.” Speaking to Bream, she offered encouragement to those seeking to deepen their faith. “Dive straight in.”