I was running an errand after daily Mass at my parish and passed New York Foundling—founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1869 as a home for children, its “extensive network of community based services provides havens for children whose safety is at risk, loving foster and group facilities to protect children and support 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.
Praying the Readings
Things encountered today… Brie on a bridge. I was crossing the Mazzini bridge near the house and saw a paper plate, a napkin, and a wrapped wedge of brie. It struck me as both intriguing and somewhat sad at the same time. A man with a hacksaw cutting the lock from a bicycle. I hoped…
Deep Down Center
Deep Down Center Deep down center within my home,within your love, within you,is a stirring wound.A wound that reminds methat I live with the grace of fragilitywhich is the giving of self to you…A humble ache of emptyingthat draws tears when probedand loosens my soul to offerspace to the much and the many.In that movement…
The Large, the Little, and All
The Large, the Little, and All You have given me the large, the little, and all. My body with curves and quirks and breath to fill it,and a mind, a heart, and the complement of senses;the plot and the characters of my life,the turns of the journey that leads me freeand leads me always, and…
Further Thoughts on Poverty
…poverty is being in a place where you know dispair or misery is just on the other side of a very thin line and you are doing everything possible to not cross over. To be there with others is living this vow in fullness to me. To stand alongside and help someone look for the…
Poverty
Poverty(With thanks to GM Hopkins for his line for Christ plays in 10,000 places) Let me live openly,simply, as youwho play in ten thousand places. Let me live looselyin all but relationship to you,the fire that beckons and gathers and warms- and dies and rises in glory and is discoveredin wonder and by the calling…
Best Adventures
“The best adventure of all–living openly and allowing life to touch the heart.” This past weekend was full of these best-adventures. One began with the simple need to leave the house for a bit, to get fresh air, stretch the legs, go on an amble amidst a greater reality. I went with one of the…
Chastity
Chastity I am a woman of bone and blood,of air and ink and fire and clay. A woman created, and meant to create…meant to touch and feel and breathe,meant to love and shape and hopeburning embers into light. This, while letting go myself-allowing the One and the Manyto reach in and stir my own deep…
Obedience
Obedience You have had my yes for years–and I have had yours since the sun, the seashells, and the storms at sea. But now, ah…you and I are more than yes.As time moves with, within, and around,this yes of ours takes on wings, takes on colors I never imagined,challenges that strengthen and soften me,glory that…
Consider the Lilies 