#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry's “Pray Without Ceasing”
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Della Budge
Della Budge came bearing an ice cake on a stand like a lighted lamp. She said he was standing with his hands behind him leaning back against the door jam. Once she had been Jack's teacher, for years they had waged a contest in which she had endeavored to teach him the begats from Abraham to Jesus. He was one of her failures, but she maintained a proprietary interest in him nonetheless. The only one left alive who called him Jackie. When your time comes, you must go by the hand of a man or by the stroke of God. So, we must always be ready, she said. Pray without ceasing.
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