Sanctification and Something Dying

Written By Cody S. Edds

A still afternoon on the church porch

Settles in my soul

Like trembling hands

To the unfolding chest

Of a shot-through soldier:

The unraveling pieces of thread,

And the Holy Spirit’s refusal

To patch up the wound.

Fragments of essence;

The Old Man’s breathing diluted

Like the slow muted motion

Of rusting bells;

And the almost abandoned house:

Mailboxes used as birdhouses.

Cody S. Edds

Cody S. Edds is the Director of Communications at Greystone Theological Institute, Web Design Manager at The London Lyceum, a husband, a father, a minister, and a member of First Baptist Church in Chickamauga, GA. He holds an M.Div from Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, and lives in Northwest Georgia with his wife and two boys.

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