Advent II, 2013 It is within me to seek you, alive and encompassing. It is in my soul to ache with beauty, to sigh while believing that nothing can come between the flame and the wick. It is within me to be radiant with you. It is in my soul to…
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.
Advent I, 2013
Solar eclipse over SanFrancisco bay, 2012 Advent I, 2013 Wrap me in the now of Love for it is a touching time when nearness is felt absolutely, entirely— and my yes echoes from star to star: I will touch, I will open, I will receive, I will share. Your life fills the heavens, spins the…
The Long Way Round
Longest way round is the shortest way home. ~~James Joyce in Ulysses~~ I read this quotation somewhere a number of days ago and it has stayed with me…I played around with it while thinking too of the mathematical principle of the shortest distance between two objects being a straight line. They seem to be saying…
The Divine Poetic
Non coerceri a maximo, sed contineri a minimo divinum est. Not to be limited by the greatest, yet to be contained in the tiniest– this is the divine. Ignatius of Loyola Conversations about poetry continued in the classroom this week. We re-enacted a 125 year old ball game while reciting the stanzas of Casey…
Sing it out!
I gave my students a test last week…which meant that the first book we read as a literature class is now over…which means I need to know what comes next. I didn’t. Until last night. And now, egad, I am thrilled. We’re doing poetry…long poetry. Story-telling poetry. Salty-sweet-tang-for-the-tongue-deeply-musical-visual poetry. Interestingly enough, the idea for this…
Sacred moment, sacred trust
Yesterday I had a third grader bless me…and I am still left with the sensation of awe, respect, and humility that I experienced in that moment and in the hours that followed. After her class trip to the library, a student approached me, telling me that her grandmother had died and that the funeral is…
An Act of Creation a day…
“In the time that I have been sitting and looking at the screen or staring off into the seemingly greener grass distance, I could be making scones.” This is the salvific thought I had this afternoon. Words are no more at the ready than they were before and my thoughts are no more ordered, but…
Mystical Immediate
Late afternoon this past Tuesday, I returned from a month of helping out with an RSCJ project in Cuba. Over the course of three weeks, we put on 11 different day-camps at different sites for over 360 children. It was a phenomenal experience and I offer below some reflections from my journal…. 14 July, 2013….
An Adventure
It isn’t as though I don’t know that an adventure is coming. I have been making piles for a while now and going over lists. I have purchased what new is needed and found what has been tucked away since the last time. I have washed, folded, selected, bagged, and packed. I have copied documents,…
Consider the Lilies 