What does God’s peace actually look like when life feels anything but peaceful?
When anxiety, uncertainty, relationship struggles or difficult circumstances hit, God’s peace can feel frustratingly out of reach. But is peace about avoiding our problems, or facing them differently?
I joined Mal Pope on Premier Christian Radio to explore what it means to experience God’s peace in everyday life, even when everything feels overwhelming.
If you’d like to enjoy the prayer exercise, it’s during the last third of the interview.
How does God invite us to pray with our whole selves?
That’s the question Kristen Rubow and I will explore at our next online retreat on October 17. Kristen is a mind and movement coach, and we’ve been delighted to be developing material based on the Bible and neuroscience, to help us pray with our our whole selves.
The movements are gentle and can be done from standing or sitting; all movements can be modified for your body.
Online retreats can be a wonderful way of joining together from around the world in the comfort and privacy of your own home. We’d love for you to join us!
17 October 2026, UK: 3–6pm; US Mountain time: 8–11am
Christ dwells within those who follow him through the Holy Spirit. How might practicing the presence of Jesus deepen for us when we consider that he dwells within not only our spirits and souls but our bodies? We’ll look at how God is for us, how we can attach to God and receive his love, and how the God of love will change us as we renew our minds and deepen our pathways to him.
To pay in US dollars: Please ignore the links to my online shop (which would mean paying for conversation to £ sterling) and instead pay Kristen’s venmo: @m3kinections
Standard $35; subsidized $30; generous $40. Please email me to confirm that you’ve signed up this way so that I can add you to the list.
Amy Boucher Pye and Kristen Rubow have been friends since they were toddlers. Amy is a London-based author, spiritual director, and retreat leader. The author of six books, she also writes devotional thoughts for publications such as Our Daily Bread and New Daylight. Her MA in Christian spirituality comes from Heythrop College, University of London.
Kristen is a mind and movement coach based in Colorado. Her previous extensive music background as a professional harpist instilled in her an understanding of how God awakens our senses. She developed M3Kinections, her studio, with a movement curriculum on neuroplasticity 15 years ago and now encourages people to use movement to develop connection within themselves, creating a stronger sense of self and wholeness. Find her at www.m3kinections.com.
I welcome you to spend just 90 seconds being refreshed by the sound of the waves and the words from the Psalms. I recorded this short video a few years ago on the coast of North Devon.
How does God invite us to pray with our whole selves?
I’m excited to announce two online retreats this autumn that Kristen Rubow and I are leading. Kristen is a mind and movement coach, and we’ve been delighted to be developing material based on the Bible and neuroscience, to help us pray with our our whole selves!
The movements are gentle and can be done from standing or sitting; all movements can be modified for your body. We hope you’ll be able to join one or both of the retreats.
Returning Home
26 September 2026, UK: 3–6pm; US Mountain time: 8–11am
God breathed life into us—his very breath within us giving us life. But when our first parents turned from God, our lives became disconnected and fragmented. Yet God calls us to return home to him and to ourselves. As we engage with these overarching themes from the Bible, we’ll explore how God made our brains and bodies dynamic and changeable. God will help us to reconnect what was broken.
To pay in £ sterling: standard £25; subsidized £20; generous £30 (if you are signing up for both retreats, please choose the subsidized rate for each retreat to secure a discount)
To pay in US dollars: Please ignore the links to my online shop (which would mean paying for conversation to £ sterling) and instead pay Kristen’s venmo: @m3kinections
Standard $35; subsidized $30; generous $40, and $60 for both retreats. Please email me to confirm that you’ve signed up this way so that I can add you to the list.
Changed by God
17 October 2026, UK: 3–6pm; US Mountain time: 8–11am
Christ dwells within those who follow him through the Holy Spirit. How might practicing the presence of Jesus deepen for us when we consider that he dwells within not only our spirits and souls but our bodies? We’ll look at how God is for us, how we can attach to God and receive his love, and how the God of love will change us as we renew our minds and deepen our pathways to him.
To pay in £ sterling: standard £25; subsidized £20; generous £30 (if you are signing up for both retreats, please choose the subsidized rate for each retreat to secure a discount)
To pay in US dollars: Please ignore the links to my online shop (which would mean paying for conversation to £ sterling) and instead pay Kristen’s venmo: @m3kinections
Standard $35; subsidized $30; generous $40, and $60 for both retreats. Please email me to confirm that you’ve signed up this way so that I can add you to the list.
Amy Boucher Pye and Kristen Rubow have been friends since they were toddlers. Amy is a London-based author, spiritual director, and retreat leader. The author of six books, she also writes devotional thoughts for publications such as Our Daily Bread and New Daylight. Her MA in Christian spirituality comes from Heythrop College, University of London. Find her at amyboucherpye.com.
Kristen is a mind and movement coach based in Colorado. Her previous extensive music background as a professional harpist instilled in her an understanding of how God awakens our senses. She developed M3Kinections, her studio, with a movement curriculum on neuroplasticity 15 years ago and now encourages people to use movement to develop connection within themselves, creating a stronger sense of self and wholeness. Find her at www.m3kinections.com.
What’s the hardest thing God has ever asked you to do?
Maybe it was leaving something familiar, stepping out in faith, or trusting God when his plans didn’t make sense.
Nearly 30 years ago, I left the US for the UK to start married life.
I reflect with Lydia Bennett on Premier Christian Radio on navigating a new culture, finding home, and discovering God’s faithfulness through every twist and turn. We draw inspiration from Still Finding Myself in Britain, the 10th anniversary edition of this award-winning book.
Jesus said, “Come away with me and rest for awhile” (Matthew 6:31). He issued that invitation to his friends at the time, but he extends this loving welcome to us too.
Join me in Horton County Nature Reserve in Surrey, England, to embrace prayerfully Jesus’ invitation to rest, to give our worries to him. He says that our heavenly Father cares for us more than the birds in the air or the glorious flowers of the field.
Feel free to pause the video at any point as you ponder and reflect with God.
I love Celtic-flavored prayers; the repetition and poetry is beautiful helps me connect to God. Here’s one about the enfolding love of God, which I invite you to ponder and prayer through:
Carmina Gadelica III, p. 53, in David Adam, The Path of Life: Meditations on prayers from the Celtic tradition (London: SPCK, 2009), p. 85.
Today in the church we celebrate Trinity Sunday, a day to mark the glorious mystery of the God who is Three-in-One (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). I love this Celtic prayer:
I am bending my knee
In the eye of the Father who created me,
In the eye of the Son who purchased me,
In the eye of the Spirit who cleansed me,
In friendship and affection.
Through Your own Anointed One, O God,
Bestow upon us fullness in our need,
Love towards God,
The affection of God,
The smile of God,
The wisdom of God,
The grace of God,
The fear of God,
And the will of God
To do on the world of the Three,
As angels and saints
Do in heaven;
Each shade and light,
Each day and night,
Each time in kindness,
Give us Your Spirit.
Carmina Gadelica I, pp. 2-3, as found in David Adam, The Path of Life: Meditations on prayers from the Celtic tradition (London: SPCK, 2009), pp. 23.
On this feast of Pentecost, I’m pondering love—the greatest of the gifts of the Spirit. Join me as we gaze on a little stream near Lee Bay in north Devon and pray through 1 Corinthians 13. Feel free to pause the recording as you encounter our living, loving God.
I confess, I never thought I’d be living in Britain for nearly longer than my native USA… I haven’t surpassed that mark yet, but only just!
Finding myself in Britain has been a surprise. Some challenges, many joys, some surprises – such as the 10th anniversary edition of my first book!
My publisher asked some good questions about why this book, such as:
As you have looked back on the original book to revise it for this edition, how did you feel? Were there things that surprised you / had changed about yourself since you wrote the original?
To be honest, it was hard looking back! I think for a lot of us, the past ten years have been challenging, with the pandemic, cost of living crisis, and more global changes of people becoming more suspicious and fractious. Our own family has had its fair share of travails, so I sought also to remember how God has brought us through those times, and how he never abandoned us while we were in them. I continue to find myself in Britain!
