Advent IV, 2017 It is the quiet of awe and knowing that fills me now. Sunrise comes and then the galaxy dances. In between, we live in You, deciding how to use all of that light. -Kimberly M. King, RSCJ- Adviento IV, 2017 Es el silencio del asombro y de la consciencia que me…
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.
The Drummer
Someone asked me this morning if I ever wrote for children… Over the years, yes, absolutely. I used to write curricular poetry for students about everything from Newton’s laws of motion to punctuation marks and many things in between. Then there’s the little tiny woman who lives in my pocket…though, granted, I’ve never actually written…
Advent III, 2017
Advent III, 2017 You are born in the thousand sighs of an uncertain world; Born in between hope and tomorrow when good and ill are equally possible; born to wail, to proclaim, to live, to live, to live in love, through me, through us all… on this one journey that we are called to make….
Cosmic Bookshelves
Free-use image taken by the Hubble Telescope I am not known as someone with a good sense of direction… I thought of that last night when I realized how easy it would be for me to lose myself in staring into the heavens…staring into the stories told by the constellations. I had gone to the…
Advent II, 2017
Advent II, 2017 I love it both when you announce yourself on the daybreak wind, glory dancing in the shifting ink of sunrise; and when you, abiding in me, startle me into awe by your overwhelming nearness. I love that you are born both in my wonder and in this world. —Kimberly M. King, RSCJ—
Advent I, 2017
Advent I 2017 You are born at the change of seasons when textures and contrasts shift; on the horizon at daybreak and in the star-riddled heavens shot through with cosmic grace; You are born in the ache and elation of love’s fullness; in the cry for dignity, the work of justice, the broad silence of…
217 Years of Yes
Happy 217th Birthday to the Society of the Sacred Heart! Sitting here in my room, praying…I close my eyes and cruise around the world…to different political/humanitarian situations… to sisters I know…to provinces I have not yet seen…and spiral back in time and place to France…in 1800…and a small group in an attic…who dared to say…
Thank you, Happy Feast
7:13 AM. It is fitting that I should be at a harbour on the morning of your feast, Philippine. I can imagine you would find your place here at the farmers’ market–the vegetables and fruit would be familiar touchstones for you–and good coffee to warm the mind, hands, and soul. Staring at the water, though–…
Listen-Staring
This reading was one of the pieces that made me fall in love with the music and poetry of God. It caught me listen-staring and danced the first time I encountered it and it has reminded me of my awe upon every encounter since, including this morning. To proclaim it aloud is the only fitting…
Sound Bytes
I have been to All Saints Anglican cathedral before to hear the University of King’s College choirs perform. Their music is so…augh…so big, so encompassing, so exquisite…that I have wanted to write about that sound in its midst. A little while ago, I had that chance. At some point, the man next to me said…
Consider the Lilies 