Posts in The Kuzma Files

My brothers sharpen me. My son sharpens me. We are irons in the fire together; blades in war. Born of the same blood, now, united[…]

Run … run hard till you faintJust when you feel like your life means nothing to no one.You’ve never heard anything in your life that[…]

Each of us in Christ is like a fortified city with walls rooted in His foundation. We align our guards along these walls to keep[…]

Lord, please save me from faltering when times of difficulty come on. I’m not capable of finding the strength in me. I need yours. When[…]

With the same gentleness that she would handle an infant, she folded the baby clothes and set them on the shelf. She was kneeling in[…]

Stripped clean from its crop, the field lies flooded and completely bare to torrential rains. The downpour started sometime in the early hours and has[…]

From my lips the prayer is released.I watch it go up on something like angel wingsriding wherever the wind takes it,but always climbing,angling,rising through a[…]

Lying on my backon the picnic tablein my grandparents’ backyardI used to sing to the birdsin the high branchesof the catalpa treeaboveMy grandparents called it[…]

Better than a padlockor security alarmis the garbled handwritingwith which I keep my journals.Printed in faint pencil lead,the words gofrom margin to margin,(crossover margins)to the[…]

Ahead, a car flinches as its brake lights slam red.From nowhere, a hawk comes gliding across the country highway.First, the two northbound lanes.Then, the median[…]