"In My Life"

On Sunday, September 30, 2018, my brother, Gerald Evans Knight, 73 years old, passed from this life into eternity.

He was born on April 6, 1945, to John and Stella Knight. They preceded him in death along with our brother, Dennis.

 

 

 

I was so thankful that I was able to spend some time with him before his cancer took over his mind. He  was still able to communicate. It was a time of reliving our life of growing up together as brother and sister. We talked about our parents, old friends, things we had done together as a family.

One of the days, he actually felt like me driving him to Newburgh, IN where we had grown up together. A person's life is filled with so many memories. The memories are such a part of our life.

 

 

 

We were like most brothers and sisters. We would fight and argue, tell on each other, and call each other names. And then there were the times I think we actually loved each other.

But like most families, as you grow older and have your own families and lives, you grow apart. To me that was the saddest part of our lives.  If I have any regrets with my brother, that would be it.

There are so many things I wish I knew more about my brother. There are so many more stories to hear and he sure could tell the stories. I never knew whether to believe some of them or not.

 

One of things my brother and I did a lot growing up was listening to music. We both loved The Beatles. He told me his favorite Beatle Song was "In My Life". The lyrics remind me of him -

 

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all.

 



I'm going to miss my big brother. I'm going to miss his Facebook posts in the middle of the night. Most of all I'm going to miss having a brother tell me that he loves me and being able to tell my brother that I love him.

 

 

 

 

He that is without sin...

 

John 8:7

 

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone for her.

According to the Gospel of John, the Pharisees, in an attempt to discredit Jesus, brought a woman charged with adultery before him. Then they reminded Jesus that adultery was punishable by stoning under Mosaic Law and challenged him to judge the woman so that they might then accuse him of disobeying the law. Jesus thought for a moment and then replied, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.” The people crowded around him were so touched by their own consciences that they departed. When Jesus found himself alone with the woman, he asked her who were her accusers. She replied, “No man, lord.” Jesus then said, “Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more."

 

I have been watching the hearings and listening to the news about Brett Kavanaugh. 

There are no constitutional qualifications for a Supreme Court Justice. No age, citizenship, or experience rules exist. They don't even have to have a law degree. The President nominates who he think would be a good choice and then the Senate votes.  

 

They have dragged that poor man and his family through the mud.  My husband always said he would never run for any kind of office, because the media would find things about us and our family that we didn't know existed.

 

All of us have things in our past that we are not proud of.

So, if you are without sin, go ahead and cast that first stone, but examine your own heart first.

 

I'm so thankful that we have a loving God full of mercy and grace. A God who forgives our sins and remembers them no more.

I wanted to add a note to my blog. I think rape, sexual molestation, or sexual perversion is horrible. People carry around scars the rest of their life from things that have happened to them. And if Kavanaugh is guilty of what they are accusing him of, then by all means he should suffer the consequences.