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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Loved. Accepted. Held.

Encircle. Heal. Protect.

Strain and Stress

Ever felt a failure?

Is God a dog?

Imperfect ideas - a reflection on 2022

Don't try so hard - a reflection for Advent

Learning to carry the light

How do you pray?

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