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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.

Walk with me.

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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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Jul 15, 2021
3 min

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...

Should I do a degree in Creative Writing?

eirenepalmer

Jul 8, 2021
3 min

Should I do a degree in Creative Writing?

I went back to university (or school as our friends across the pond would say) when I was sixty-two. The fact that I was a generation or...

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Jul 1, 2021
4 min

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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Jun 24, 2021
3 min

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 10, 2021
3 min

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 3, 2021
3 min

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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May 20, 2021
3 min

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 13, 2021
3 min

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 6, 2021
3 min

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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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