Knight

Knight was born sometime in the late 50’s in Florissant to parents James Philip an organist for the church and Roberta a nurse. Going to a private Catholic school in Normandy he spent his earliest days in the church. He attended Mass, Sunday through Friday and in the evenings he would spend countless hours as his Father had been tasked to translate Mass’s from the Latin they had been written in to the more than a dozen languages he spoke. 

His parents had started him in piano lessons at age three. He remembers entering Kindergarten and when introduced to the Alphabet they would be learning he told the teacher that he already knew how to read and that there was nothing after G# because it returns again to A.

Receiving his first guitar for his ninth Christmas he took to it immediately. He remembers receiving a small book of chords and 12 Christmas songs. Before dinner that evening he was playing all the songs from the books for his family.

Though he didn’t realise it at the time he was fortunate to attend a school taught by the Sisters of Divine Providence. A number of them also played the guitar and he was able to soon join them in outreaches to soup kitchens, orphanages, and retirement communities. Starting him on a journey of not only performance but also charity and service to others.

In the late 70’s in response to the Jesus movement that had people leaving the church the group he played with was asked if they could do a Mass where guitar was the primary instrument, he was asked if he also join them. 

They were to play 3 times that day. At morning Mass, for the parents in the afternoon after school, and a special Service in the evening for the leaders of the church.

The first Mass went fine. Exactly as they had rehearsed.

The second not so much. As much as he tried the guitar would not stay in tune. At the end of one of the hymns. His teacher came up to him and in front of his class, the other students in the school, the parents, families and friends, and of course the other teachers and staff began to berate him telling him that guitar had no place in the House of God and that he was an embarrassment to his family, school, church and God.

Looking at the others in the room frozen in horror he did the only thing he could.

He ran. 

Running to the top of a nearby hill where a cemetery stood he threw himself on the ground in front of a large crucifix crying out to God. “Why did you make such a failure. Please take me away from this. It would be better if I had never been born.”

Moments later one of the Sisters in the group found him and explained that on examining the guitar he was using it appeared as if someone had stepped on the neck and cracked it. Not everyone wanted to see the change that he was a part of. That was what was causing it to not stay in tune. If he wanted to he could use any of the other Sisters guitars. 

Which he did. From that day forward guitar Masses have been part of the Catholic Church.

He never saw that teacher again. Another was brought in to finish the year. 

The incident had changed his heart though. He then ran from the church to a group of people that would accept him and the music he loved  He began to travel. For years his adventures led him all around the world. He engaged in all types of pleasures which had the same thing in common. They left him empty and wanting more. No desire could satisfy his heart.

In a small town on the Pacific Ocean, he met a woman and she bore him a child. When the child was about 18 months old and beginning to walk our Knight glanced into a mirror and saw his reflection of what he had become. He did not want to be the kind of man he was for his child. So one thing led to another as he tried to change till he found himself before the King. Not expecting any mercy he confessed all he had done to the King and apologized. His regret was profound and he was expecting the servierenced of punishments.

To His amazement the King smiled and with a twinkling of an eye forgave him. Completely. All the deeds that he was ashamed of were taken off the books. No records were kept of any transgressions against the King or the Kingdom.

The King also gave our Knight a task. To go out to the world and do what he loved the most. Play music. Play Worship to the King that deserves it. Play for those who know the King and those that do not. Those in the Kingdom and those who are not, and to use words,,,

Only when necessary.  

He continues to do this to this day.

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Thank you,

Knight.