"I believe that God has a plan for my life, and football is a part of that plan," Kniles says. "When I'm on the field, I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. It's a sense of peace and purpose that I don't experience anywhere else."
Brock Kniles did not cross over that night. There was no tunnel of light, no celestial reception committee. But something shifted. The static around his hands dimmed. The hollow ache in his chest softened. He stood up from the crib and looked around the nursery—at the painted alphabet blocks, at the mobile of paper moons, at the small, sleeping boy who had seen him when no one else could. brock kniles
Then, nothing.