Composed After Communion at Saint Andrew’s, 
14 November, 2023

These are the elements
of earth and all within
and all before and what will be.
We too are the elements, we 
who spark and shine, 
cleave, combust, create.
When these, the bread, the wine,
are taken in together as one
we know again the Great Becoming—
All elements, one table,
one Source, one awakening.
We are each and we are all
in essence, in substance, in amazement,
of Earth and Source, God and our Grounding.
And this communion, 
the blessing and the wonder of it, 
has unsettling implications.
No longer can I be inert, 
no longer impermeable,
no longer alone, no longer so different, 
than neighbour or unknown stranger,
than sand or moss or vine,
than tree, than bloom, than firefly.
Glory be to the Great Source,
and to the Elements,
and to what binds us all.
As it was One in the beginning,
may it be so now,
and may it be so evermore.

-Kimberly M. King-