From the journal 6:07 AM And so the morning begins in cool and breezy silence….at least for some moments. It is a passing but welcome peace that settles here in the living room where I am tucked into a couch corner with the front section of the paper and mug number one of caffeinated glory….
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.
Ingredients or Durante el Después (During the After)
As I sit here and type this, I have chicken that I will eventually slice for dinner cooling on the top of the oven. There is something pleasing to me about the simplicity of the preparation and ultimate result of baked chicken. It is a complementary food that, done right, is flavorfully polite to other…
How Awesome is this Shrine!
In a recent blog entry about returning to Xavier since the completion of the major work undertaken over the last year and a half, I wrote of an overwhelming desire to “walk around wow-ing as respectfully as possible.” With each tracing of the cleaned and defined curlicues on the bench ends and each moment of…
Anticipating the Feast
In anticipation of this Friday’s Feast of the Sacred Heart… Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2010 O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to you I offer all. You find me, you call to me,you taunt me, challenge me, entice me.You reveal your mystery to my senses. O Sacred Heart of Jesus,to you I give my life,…
On Returning to Xavier
“So??? What do you think??” With heads tilted nearly perpendicular, arms spread, and palms shrugging upward, these were the questions that most frequently followed A. hugs, B. inquiry into my well being, and C. commentary on the length of my hair, when I returned to worship at Xavier this past Sunday after having been gone…
Friday Five
From RevGals… It’s another Friday Five! This one being written once again from NYC…just returned this evening after being away since September. There is a German expression: ich würde die Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, which means: “I would put my hand in the fire for that.” So, what are five things for which would…
Organic Mystery
Today is the feast of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, RSCJ. Religious of the Sacred Heart, former RSCJ, students and former students of Sacred Heart, Associates, and colleagues around the world, are celebrating her vision, her gift, her life, in varieties of ways. Sometimes that celebration includes wishes in voice or emails sent to one another…
On Journal Writing
Most of the time when I write in my journal, I simply pick up the pen and begin. There is a modest initial structure in that entries begin with the time of day and a brief account of my surroundings at the moment. Perhaps a theme or thread will emerge according to the flow or…
Stepping Path
Stepping Path When I go home, Lord,I want to walk on song-yes, lay me my stepping pathwith a love that sings. Line my way with orange blossoms, Lord,that hum your honeyed Wordof beauty and praise! Let the rail at my hand, Lord, be the rays of glorythat wake the sleeping choruswith their morning Amen! Oh…
Journal Entry
8:34 p.m Sitting with N. Have been here since 7 p.m., F. coming at 9 p.m. This act of “being with” is amazing to me and I pray I will never grow accustomed to it. Comfortable with is one thing–accustomed to is another. The nurses just came in to rotate the side on which she’s…
Consider the Lilies 