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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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

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

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

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

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 8, 20213 min read

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

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

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

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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Overwhelmed

Silly Monkey

Here!

Writing as therapy

Should I do a degree in Creative Writing?

God in the lostness

Writing to God

Thank you God, for Spotify

God in the tiredness

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