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Hello - I'm Eirene -backstreet pilgrim. Thank you for stopping by. I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. Walk with me.
I hope you can count as prayer that which you have already been doing. Because there is just more holiness around us than we have been led to believe.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Faith. Hope. Love.
I’m asking myself right now – what do I want to write about? What words could possibly make any difference in the fear and desperation of...
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Feb 9, 20243 min read
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I am enough
I have a picture in my head of little me, at the starting line, half-crouched, ready for the off , totally pumped up, in a Very Important...
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Jan 10, 20243 min read
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What is prayer to you?
I’ve not written much lately as I’ve had all on looking after my 97 year old mum. She has just had a pacemaker fitted and is all bionic...
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May 22, 20233 min read
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It's still Easter
Easter was over a week ago, but it’s still Easter. Easter in the church lasts for fifty days until May 28th this year when we celebrate...
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Apr 17, 20233 min read
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Gas and Air
A few years ago, I fell down a flight of steps in one of our great English cathedrals. I won’t mention which one because there are such...
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Jan 22, 20234 min read
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Happy Hopeful New Year - changing from the inside out
It’s a tad late – but Happy New Year! New Year, New You! Yeah right. I don’t do new year’s resolutions because I never keep them. It’s...
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Jan 12, 20233 min read
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Peace mail
Last weekend, me and Richard ran a writing retreat at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire. And far from finding my best self before we went, I...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
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The Wilderness Weeks
I lost myself these last few months. Ever since that pesky little Covid virus invaded my body in mid-June, I’ve put up a Situations...
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Oct 17, 20224 min read
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Recovering from Biblical anorexia
When I was a young ordinand’s wife helping out in the library of his theological college, I looked up from my desk one day to find the...
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May 26, 20224 min read
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Look at the hands
Sometimes when the news is devastating and I wake up in the morning with a pit of crushing dread in my stomach, signs and symbols can...
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May 4, 20223 min read
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Loved. Accepted. Held.
I wish I could say to you, dear readers, that I’m covering many miles and a lot of ground at speed on this, my spiritual journey. For the...
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Mar 25, 20224 min read
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Encircle. Heal. Protect.
If, like me you were raised in a fundamentalist church, you learn to try very hard from the very beginning. Try hard to be good. Try hard...
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Mar 4, 20223 min read
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Strain and Stress
Last Sunday, I was singing in my cathedral choir which always means it’s a GOOD DAY. It’s my happy place, standing there in my cassock...
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Feb 12, 20224 min read
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Ever felt a failure?
We have just celebrated Candlemas – the Feast of the Presentation, which turned up as a crossword clue in the Times last weekend and for...
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Feb 3, 20223 min read
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Is God a dog?
Much against my better judgement (I’m still berating myself for things I ‘shouldn’t' do as a novice in TSSF) I took myself off to the...
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Jan 20, 20223 min read
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Imperfect ideas - a reflection on 2022
I’m just emerging from the limbo-land, the lethargy, the liminal place if you like, that is the ocean of space after Christmas and New...
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Jan 12, 20223 min read
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Don't try so hard - a reflection for Advent
So, the run-up to Christmas this year is unusually calm. The tree is decorated, the presents are wrapped, the cards are written. Normally...
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Dec 16, 20214 min read
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Learning to carry the light
Here I am, signed up to the novitiate in the Third Order of Franciscans, and I know that I have this blueprint in my head of what a good...
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Nov 25, 20214 min read
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How do you pray?
There was a time when those four words would have sent me into orgy of self -loathing. I just didn’t pray – or at least I didn’t think I...
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Nov 18, 20213 min read
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Sacred Space
When I was small, I was told that God could see me all the time. At five, you believe most things grown-ups tell you, and I saw no reason...
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Nov 11, 20214 min read
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