Life is so short…Life is so short… There isn’t enough time to love. I don’t know where people find time to hate. Sheikh Hamza offering a sermon at the funeral for the seven Barho children killed in a house fire earlier this week. This was how his sermon ended. A sermon at a funeral for…
Author: Kimberly M. King
I am a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am the director of Barat Spirituality Centre, www.baratspirituality.org, a writer, a juggler, a quick wit, a walker. I enjoy reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction and regularly write both essays and poetry. Other interests and abilities include Spanish/English written translation and simultaneous interpretation, cooking, and time spent thinking and observing.
Mark me as one for Love
I recently saw a Social Media post on the RSCJ vocations page…it’s a video of a window cleaner having fun with children who are patients in the hospital he’s helping clean. Creating bows, glasses, ‘staches, hats…out of suds, he takes pictures of them through the pane and shows them to get the kids laughing. The…
My Day and Night Spirit
Canopy of Awe At my rising and at my setting, your light, sweet God, your light… By the sun and by the moon, and by their gradient embrace upon the horizon, I give you thanks and I praise you. For you, you are astoundingly beautiful and you gift my day and night spirit with a…
In Memoriam
Walt, William, Edna, Christina, Emily, Pablo, Gabriela, Wislawa, William Butler, Anne, Rainer, Jessica, May, Thomas Stearns, Alfred, Gerard Manley, Denise… There is another among your numbers today… Though, I don’t imagine she’s made her way front and centre. More likely, Mary’s on a wander through the heavens, bounding with her dogs and penciling observations of…
Soup Pot Poetics
Sometimes, a certain sort of beautiful day happens… and the good music in the heart makes it both into the pot and onto page. Today was a day like that. Soup pot Poetics Improv your choreography, soup pot glory… let loose your steam of dance-together grace. There’s a little bit of waltz and long slide…
A Birthday and Three Epiphanies
It’s all I have to bring to-day, this and my heart, beside, this and my heart and all the fields, and all the meadows wide. Be sure you count, should I forget— someone the sum could tell,— This, and my heart, and all the bees which in the clover dwell. —Emily Dickinson— Thank you, Emily…
End of Year, 2018: Each Bend and Crag, Crack and Nook
30 December, 2018 I have heard the University of King’s College Cathedral Choir sing many times before, yet each time is a different experience because the sound, the exquisite beauty they loose into the universe, is interacting with what I bring to the listening. Planets, solar systems, and galaxies have at different times been…
Christmas Grace, 2018
Christmas Grace, 2018 Amidst the cold bells tolling, the clamours of this broken world, We have reason to rejoice in hope and proclaim the glory of the Word Made Flesh- Announce it with clarity and Announce it with joy! Gloria in Excelsis Deo! Hodie, Christus natus est! Glory to God in the Highest! Christ is…
Advent Grace
Advent Grace And so the world in winter waits, latitude not withstanding… Some wait at borders and in camps, uncertain of home or place; some at bedsides, where time no longer has meaning. Those for whom the night is too long, they wait for dawn to rise. The animals in tufted hidey-holes wait for the…
Consider the Lilies 