A book I began recently, Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett, proposed the idea that We can construct factual accounts and systems from DNA, gross national products, legal code, but they don’t begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in a life, what matters in a death, how to love, how…
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.
On the Cusp
On The CuspYou make me strong-strong to sing down my fear with the rise, the uplift, the choir robed Gospel embrace of voices in praise and strong with pencil and line and just enough groove to write my psalm of the world is crazy on the cusp, and a roiling mess of ego and power…
Grace: One small act at a time
Missiles are being launched and countries that are armed to the gills and seething are being taunted. Presidents are pardoning racists and proclaiming them upstanding. The heavens have opened and floods are plaguing creation. Gunmen enter libraries and kill. Cars are driven into crowds; people are “disappeared,” trafficked, bullied, ignored. All of this and still,…
Charlottesville…Showing up…and Beauty
The news of Charlottesville, Virginia puts the lingering thoughts of my retreat, from which I returned a week ago, into stark relief. In a way. On the other hand, my notes help provide a way to structure my response to the hatred, the fear, the violence, that includes and goes far beyond and far deeper…
The Wingspan of One’s Voice
This morning I was listening to a recording of a radio interview featuring two folksingers—Elise Witt and Sara Thomsen. During the conversation, Elise made mention of “the wingspan” of voice. How fortunate I felt that such a lovely expression was one of the first things I began to consider as I sipped coffee. It led…
Ten Perfect Raspberries
Ten Perfect Raspberries Retreat, 2017 at Martin’s River When it begins with being able to call dinner a feast, (Dinner is a pair of hard-boiled eggs and ten perfect raspberries, eaten with my feet up, and the door open and the light resting easy and the air all soft and salty and cool, full of…
Playing Tag in the Kitchen
Playing Tag in the Kitchen with God I lovethat you find new waysto play tag with my delight:the zap-tang surpriseof vinegar on my tongue;the patient tap on each shoulderfrom chili and cinnamon after chocolatemakes her resplendent entrance;the prismatic shimmyof sponge and soap bubblessteeping in the rice pot tub. –Kimberly M. King, RSCJ–
OH memory
Perhaps it’s the news of late…perhaps it is the proximity of Canada Day to Independence Day…perhaps it is summertime or the fact that I am about to return to the United States for the first time in a while. Whatever the motivation, the other day I made a list of things I remembered about my…
A Moment recorded in Italics
24th June, 2017 7:25 AM Among many other things, I am thinking about the other day in the Gardens, with the rain and the evening tones and how exquisite everything looked…the deep greens, the flower colors, the way the rain was shot through with light…Part of what I was aware of was how that whole,…
Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2017
“Cosmic Christ” by Annett Hanrahan, RSCJ Around the world today, wherever RSCJ are, we will renew our vows. Around the world… in whatever circumstance…be it precarious, flourishing, just coming to be, closing, changing, unsure…we will renew our vows. Some years, this act might offer hope,.. in other moments, perhaps it inspires the daring needed to…
Consider the Lilies 