NOT SO SHINING KNIGHT
THE NOT SO SHINING KNIGHT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIDELITY AND INFIDELITY INTO THE MARRIAGE LOTS OF NEWNESS WE DID EVERY THING TOGETHER VOLUNTEERING LAUGHTER LOVE WHEN MY KNIGHT BEGAN SPENDING WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH CERTAIN KNIGHTS INDULGING IN A CERTAIN PASTTIME WITH YOUNGER FEMALE VOLUNTEERING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AT THE CHURCH GIVING HIM THE BENEFITS OF THE DOUBT KNOWING FULL WELL HE'S ONLY A MAN HIS INFIDELITY EXPOSED AFTER MY ILLNESS MY TRAUMATIC HEADACHES CRIPPLED ME HE ACTUALLY DROPPED ME OFF AT HOME RUSHED BACK TO THE CHURCH WE NORMALLY DID THE FOOD BANK TOGETHER BUT NOT THIS DAY MY INTUITIONS WERE RIGHT WHEN HE CALLED ME SEATED WITH THIS WOMAN IN THE WORK VAN USED TO PICK UP FOOD DONATIONS FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES HE COULDN'T HIDE IT HE EXPLAINS SHE WAS TRYING TO ACTUALLY GET HIM TO GO TO HER PLACE AND CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY IMAGINE THAT HE WAS SO NERVOUS HE GAVE ME THE PHONE SHE THOUGHT SHE I WAS A GHOST WHATS GOING ON THIS ISN'T RIGHT HE TRIED TO DENY AT FIRST HE ACTUALLY KELP ME ON THE PHONE UNTIL SHE DROPPED HIM BACK OFF I CONTINUED TO FOLLOW HIS ACTIVITY PLACES HE BEEN AFTER DROPPING OUR GRANDDAUGHTER OFF AT SCHOOL HE CONTINUED THIS TEMPTATIONS SIN NO MORE I ASKED HIM WHY HE DID IT HE SAYS THE KNIGHTS TOLD ME TO GO WITH HER CHECK THINGS OUT CHURCHES FOOD PICK UP LOCATION HOTEL I THOUGHT I AM LEAVING THIS WAS NO WAY KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SHOULD BEHAVE OUR NEW MARRIAGE WAS NOW CHALLENGED INFECTED BUT I WANTED TO SAVE OUR MARRIAGE I CANTACTED THE PRIEST THE ARCH DIOCESE HOW CAN WE VOLUNTEER IN A PLACE WHERE INFIDELITY IS ALLOWED IN CHURCH PARKING LOT I PRAYED I BELIEVED IN FORGIVENESS HOWEVER I FELT LONELY TOO WHY SHOULD HE BE THEE ONLY ONE HAVING FUNTIMES MEET UPS AT THE LAUNDROMAT OF ALL PLACES MY ANXIETY WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO GO TO CROWDED LAUNDROMATS SO HE WENT MY FAVORITE GARMENTS WERE ALWAYS TAKEN HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN THIS WOMAN WAS FURIOUS SHE WANTED MY HUSBAND SO SHE SNATCHED MY GARMENTS FROM THE DRYER LEAVING HERS TO SHOW ME JUST WHAT HE WAS UP TO CRAZY NO MISTAKEN INFIDELITY THATS WHEN HE OFFERED UP ANOTHER FELLOW KNIGHT TO SPICE OUR LIFE I THOUGHT THIS IS WAY OVER THE TOP BUT I'M SUMMISSIVE TO MY KNIGHT I DIDN'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT BUT I LISTENED HIS GUILT WAS SO OVERWHELMING HE ACTUALLY BELIEVED I'D ENJOY TWO HUNGRY SILVER BACK KNIGHTS WHILE HE GET TO EXPLORE YOUNGER IMMIGRANT ALDI SAVE LOT PARKING LOT LADIES OFVCATHOLIC CHARITIES IMMIGRANT SERVICES LOOKING TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY PARKING LOT PASSTIME I FELT I DESERVE TO CHOOSE FOR MYSELF HE WAS ADAMANT ABOUT IT HAS TO BE A BROTHER KNIGHT HE SELECTED THE KNIGHT WHOSE WIFE RECENTLY PASSED AWAY I REMEMBER THE PRIEST SAYING HOW DEVOTED A WIFE SHE WAS TAKING CARE OF HER HUSBAND WHILE DYING HERSELF THEY CARRIED HER TINY BOX OF ASHES KNIGHTS ON EACH SIDE THE VERY NEXT DAY HIS ALDI LADY DUSTING HIS WIFE GERMAN HUMMELS WEARING HER SLIPPERS AND TAKING CARE OF HIM NOW NOT SO GRIEVING KNIGHT MIND YOU I'M WONDERING THIS INFIDELITY WITHIN THE CHURCH I FELT EMPTY TRULY BUT IS THIS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE MARRIED TO A NOT SO SHINING KNIGHT MY KNIGHT ACTUALLY GAVE ME PERMISSION TO STRAY AS LONG AS IT WITH HIS BROTHER KNIGHT IMAGINE THAT THIS ALLOWED TEMPTATIONS IN LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL RIGHT AT ANYRATE WE ACTUALLY WENT OVER FOR THE SIT DOWN IT WAS THEN MY KNIGHT CAME TO HIS SENSES SOMETHING SNAPPED WHEN HIS BUDDY KNIGHT SAYS JUST LEAVE YOUR WIFE HERE WITH ME YOU GO GET BOXES HE YELLED HEY THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS I'M NOT LEAVING MY WIFE HERE ALONE WITH YOU THAT WASN'T THE DEAL I THOUGHT IS THIS WHAT THEY DO I FELT SO ISOLATED HIS BUDDY KNIGHT STARTED PULLING UP IN HIS GOLF CART MY KNIGHT TOLD HIM IF EVER COME BACK TO OUR HOME HE WOULD REMOVE HIS HEAD WITH HIS BARE HANDS THIS COULD GET OUT IF CONTROL MURDER SUICED HE WAS TRYING TO GIVE ME ANOTHER MAN TO REPAY HIS INFIDELITY TO ME STAYING IN MY FAITH FORGIVENESS IN MY HEART BECAUSE SIN HAD ENTERED I BEING WRITING LIVING THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT FAITHFUL SIN NO MORE I REALIZED THE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PARKING LOT MY KNIGHT WAS GENUINELY REMORSEFUL I ACTUALLY WAS TRYING TO GIVE ME HIS BLESSINGS TO BE WITH A BROTHER KNIGHT HOWEVER IT DIDN'T END THERE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WOMEN BEGAN TAUNTING US FOLLOWING HIM TO THE LAUNDROMAT SHE WAS BITTER HE SHUT HER DOWN ONCE HE REALIZED HE MIGHT LOSE ME THAT'S WHEN SHE HIGH JACKED OUR DRYER GRABBED ONLY MY BELONGINGS MY BRAS SWIMMING SUIT YES UNDER GARMENTS OUR SHEETS ONLY MY PERSONAL ITEMS FROM THE DRYER THEN PULLED OFF IN HER CAR I REALIZED OUR MARRIAGE WAS CONTAMINATED INFECTED WITH SIN EVEN I WAS TEMPTED BUT I STAYED IN MY FAITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIDELITY AND INFIDELITY I FORGAVE MY KNIGHT EYES WIDE OPEN TO THIS ORGANIZATION SOON THE BROTHER KNIGHTS PLANNED MEETINGS TO DISCUSS MAKE IT GO AWAY BY OFFERING WALMART CARDS TO THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ALSO FUNDS DEPOSITED IN A FOOD BANK ACCOUNT TO BY HER DOG FOOD FOR HER TWO BIG DOGS SGE BROUGHT OVER FROM HER COUNTRY SHAMEFUL YES WE ARE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER THE BROTHERS WASN'T THERE WHEN THIS CAUSED SEVERE EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS I HELD MY KNIGHT WE STAYED IN PRAYER EXERCISING THE TRUE MEANING OF FORGIVENESS THE TRUE MEANING OF TEMPTATION SIN NO MORE MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE NOT AN ORGANIZATION PAYING OFF WOMEN HOTEL STAYS WRITE OFFS INFIDELITY ON THE GO WALMART CARDS IN EXCHANGE FOR PARKING LOT FUNTIME AT THE FOODBANK OUR MARRIAGE SURVIVED INFIDELITY THROUGH FAITH FORGIVENESS THROUGH OUR LOVE
GO SIN NO MORE
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
AT THE FOOD BANK
Copyright © Yolanda Joy Nicholsen | Year Posted 2025
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