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Ever Bound. Odessa Gillespie Black
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isbn 9781601839305
Автор произведения Odessa Gillespie Black
Жанр Учебная литература
Серия Cursed Series
Издательство Ingram
After the night before, I wasn’t sure if anything could cleanse me. “She’s gone too far this time. Please don’t be angry with me. I can’t do it.”
Mama bowed her head. She’d probably pray for me all day. “I could never be angry with you. I love you. And God loves you. And in her own way, I think Grace loves you too. Last night she was very sweet in coming to see you. Why, I don’t think I’ve ever had a more wonderful meal. Or a better night of sleep. I woke fully refreshed.”
“I’m sure you did.” I clenched my fists. They were blinded too. She must’ve used some sort of wicked sleep potion on them, and they had no idea.
Mama and Pop left for church.
I stared at the wooden walls. No one would believe me, a lowly farmhand, if I told the family what Grace had done. There was no reason to bother. It could even possibly be turned around on me.
She could make it sound as though I had forced myself on her if she wanted to. She’d done it plenty of times already.
At the wardrobe, I shoved all my expensive clothes aside. The clothes I came here in were in the back, so I pulled them out.
* * * *
The church steeple poked into a blue Sunday sky.
Piano music filtered out open church windows as a chorus sang a hymn. The call to the altar at the end of preaching had started.
I shoved the doors open.
Everyone in the church stared at me.
I marched straight for the parson and stopped beside Grace. I started to look at her, but I simply shook my head and continued on.
The piano continued to play, but the congregation’s song stopped.
The parson leaned in to me. “My son, do you need prayer?”
“Yes. And lots of it. I’d also like to be baptized. I’ve allowed sin into my life.” I looked boldly upon Grace, then back to the parson. “I need it washed away.”
“There’s nothing that would bring me greater joy. Let us now pray.” As he spoke soothing words of reverence, I silently asked God’s forgiveness for any part I may have had in the evening before or the provocation thereof, though I was pretty sure I’d been faultless. When I looked back up, I gazed past Grace, Mrs. Rollins, and on to Mama.
She smiled and nodded.
I followed the parson to the river just outside the church. Within a few minutes, I was baptized and cleansed of all my past transgressions.
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