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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.

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Just as I am

Now I may have mentioned once or twice that the church I grew up in was a little, shall we say, less than liberal. And I don’t want to go...

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Nov 4, 20214 min read

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God hates a straitjacket

I used to feel that being a Christian was exhausting. It was just plain hard work. I grew up singing nifty little choruses such as, ‘Read...

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Oct 28, 20214 min read

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Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

So, there I am, standing up in front of a congregation of supporters, proclaiming my intention to dedicate myself to the service of Our...

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Oct 21, 20214 min read

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The doubting novice

The week before I became a novice, I felt empty. I felt low, ungracious, raw and angry. The week when I should have been full of life and...

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Oct 14, 20213 min read

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Are you a worrier?

The gospel reading at church last Sunday was that passage from Matthew about not worrying. You know, the one which says we are not to...

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Sep 30, 20213 min read

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A Simple Life

I sometimes feel, living in our little outcrop of rock in the middle of the North Sea that other countries have so much more nature than...

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Sep 23, 20214 min read

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My three most popular posts!

I can't believe it, but backstreetpilgrim has been online now for just over a year now, and I have published fifty blogposts. Fifty! When...

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Sep 16, 20211 min read

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Holy Ground

Two weeks before we were due to lead our first ever writing retreat, we got ill. It started first as one of those tickly throats – you...

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Sep 9, 20213 min read

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Overwhelmed

This morning I was up at 7.30 am. (I know – ridiculously early for some, middle of the day for parents of toddlers) and I needed to go...

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Aug 26, 20213 min read

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Silly Monkey

We have a prayer we say every day in the Third Order which says... ‘Grant, we pray, that being knit together in community and prayer we...

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Aug 10, 20213 min read

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Here!

When I was growing up in my little wooden hut of a church with its bare walls, its serried ranks of hard chairs and its purple and white...

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Aug 5, 20213 min read

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Writing as therapy

I’m in the middle of a coast-to coast walk. And before I hear any murmurs of congratulation, appreciation, admiration or wonder, you need...

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Jul 15, 20213 min read

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God in the lostness

One of the effects for me of our Collective Great Isolation is that I’ve lost my well-honed sense of time. Before Covid, if I lost the...

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Jul 1, 20214 min read

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Writing to God

I love watching my little toddler grandchildren work things out. Maybe that block won’t fit in that hole. Maybe the baked beans are...

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Jun 24, 20213 min read

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Thank you God, for Spotify

I’ve just discovered Spotify. In our age of galloping technology is this is akin to marvelling that Columbus has just landed on the East...

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Jun 10, 20213 min read

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God in the tiredness

Sometimes you just feel a whole bunch of feelings which you are convinced you shouldn’t be feeling, and in doing so compound those...

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Jun 3, 20213 min read

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A husband's last words

Last Wednesday was my first husband’s birthday. He died when he was forty-one so he didn’t get to have as many as he should. Sometimes...

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May 20, 20213 min read

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God was there all the time

At the moment, my mind feels like one of those coffee percolators we had when I was a teenager in the seventies. You know, the tall...

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May 13, 20213 min read

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Finding Gold

I’ve just realised that in my spiritual spring-cleaning, I’m so busy chucking out the beliefs I don’t want anymore that I’m in real...

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May 6, 20213 min read

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Deconstructing with Queen

One of the things about growing up in an evangelical fundamentalist church is that you are encased in a tight straitjacket of rules and...

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Apr 29, 20213 min read

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Just as I am

God hates a straitjacket

Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

The doubting novice

Are you a worrier?

A Simple Life

My three most popular posts!

Holy Ground

Overwhelmed

Silly Monkey

Here!

Writing as therapy

God in the lostness

Writing to God

Thank you God, for Spotify

God in the tiredness

A husband's last words

God was there all the time

Finding Gold

Deconstructing with Queen

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