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I'm Eirene - backstreet pilgrim.

I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. My journey is taking me through the backstreets,

not by any main route into the city.

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'Faith is the radical trust that home has always been there and always will be there.'

Henri Nouwen

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eirenepalmer

Feb 3, 2022
3 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Jan 20, 2022
3 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Jan 12, 2022
3 min

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...

Don't try so hard - a reflection for Advent

eirenepalmer

Dec 16, 2021
4 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Nov 25, 2021
4 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Nov 18, 2021
3 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Nov 11, 2021
4 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Nov 4, 2021
4 min

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...

eirenepalmer

Oct 28, 2021
4 min

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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Welcome!

Exploring your spiritual journey? Check out my blog

Are you a writer?

Interested in Franciscans?

To contact: backstreetpilgrim@gmail.com

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Exploring your spiritual journey?

Check out my blog