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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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Feb 9, 20243 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Jan 10, 20243 min read
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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eirenepalmer
May 22, 20233 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Apr 17, 20233 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Jan 22, 20234 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Jan 12, 20233 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Oct 17, 20224 min read
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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eirenepalmer
May 26, 20224 min read
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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eirenepalmer
May 4, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Mar 25, 20224 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Feb 12, 20224 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Feb 3, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Jan 20, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Jan 12, 20223 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Dec 16, 20214 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Nov 25, 20214 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Nov 18, 20213 min read
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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eirenepalmer
Nov 11, 20214 min read
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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