I have been in a position of privilege this week. Well, honestly, it is the same position I am in every week…in a chair or on my feet in front of students, teaching. But these last days overflow within me…absolutely overflow…and invite me to repeat what I have brought to God and proclaimed to those…
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.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday, 2014 I am glory and it is to glory I shall return; to home, to you, unmistakable love. I live in that strength; I walk with that courage into the unknown precarious what lies ahead. Because it is you who draws me out and draws me onward, toward boldness of being and greatness…
God Memory
In so many words, one of my students made mention of God-memory the other day and my imagination hasn’t been able to let it go. It came from her looking for a way to talk about doing the right thing and being aware of God in our lives…”You know…like the body has muscle memory, we’ve…
A Trinity of Years
I mentioned to someone that today was the anniversary of my final vows in the Society and they asked “How many years?” Without even thinking I said, “Three and a lifetime.” I have had occasion of late to look back over pictures from the course of my life… I look at the younger me and…
There’s a New Year Ahead
“We must always look at things/from the point of view of eternity…/from which, I imagine, we would all/appear to have speed lines trailing behind us/as we rush along the road of the world.” –from Billy Collins’ poem ‘Velocity.’ School begins again tomorrow. We have been on break for two and a half weeks, plus two…
Rahner and Remainders
“When the totals of your plans and of your life’s experiences do not balance out evenly, I am the unsolved remainder. And I know that this remainder, which makes you so frantic, is in reality my love, that you do not yet understand. “ (from a Christmas meditation by Karl Rahner) I have been thinking…
Advent IV, 2013
Advent IV, 2013 Your nearness crackles, Love, and I sing for want of a way to contain certain joy swishing her cape at the awe of it all. Kimberly M. King, rscj
Decorations of a different sort
I am sitting at a heavy wooden table as I write this… Two cookbooks are open; a recently emptied coffee canister with a label I found pleasing is sitting by the cookbooks and it is also open…just in case there is any more scent it would care to offer up. I am sipping on a…
Advent III, 2013
(Image is courtesy of ESA and NASA. Acknowledgment: E. Olszewski, U. Arizona) Advent III, 2013 Birth and life… neither is a muted affair. The effort to quiet or contain them would snatch at starlight and whisper away the edge of awe’s flame, leaving mystery to sputter. Kimberly M. King, RSCJ
Consider the Lilies 