Amy Boucher Pye

Author: Amy Boucher Pye

  • Join me this Advent on retreat

    Plan now for a refreshing encounter with Jesus during Advent!

    “I was able to lose myself in my time with Jesus.”

    “You helped me encounter God in a new way.”

    “I’m very visual, and am learning that the Spirit really speaks to me through beautiful art… Leo’s lovely paintings really blessed me. The journal was beautifully presented.”

    Advent can be an intense time of the year – the hustle and bustle of preparing for Christmas can overtake our intentions to prepare our hearts and minds for the coming of Jesus. But however busy we are, we can trust that God is with us. He is Emmanuel – the One who always with us.

    Join me for an Advent reflection to refocus on Christ from the comfort of your home or in person at the atmospheric Waverley Abbey. Through three sessions, using words and pictures, we will look at Jesus from the start, Jesus in the darkness and Jesus with us. We’ll enjoy time together as a group, and you’ll have space for your own prayer and reflection.

    Together, let’s cut through the frenetic pace of the season and make space for Jesus this Advent.

    Please note that I will be sharing much of the same content as for the Advent 2023 retreat.

    When: 7 December online from 3 to 5.30pm UK (check your timezone)

    What: Three sessions for you retreat, receive, renew

    Downloadable prayer journal, either for printing or to use digitally through a PDF

    Schedule:

    3pm           Introduction and session 1: Jesus from the start

    3.50pm      Session 2: Jesus in our darkness

    4.30pm      Break

    4.45pm      Session 3: Jesus with us

    5.30pm      End

    Sign up now!

    Or join in person at Waverley Abbey, Farnham, Surrey, on 14 December. Find out more and book your place for an engaging day.

  • A conversation with Elliott Frisby about prayer and friendship with God

    How can we be fully ourselves? How can we pray?

    Take a few minutes to hear about friendship with Jesus and the difference it makes (my book Transforming Love) and God-encountering, time-tested ways to pray (my book 7 Ways to Pray). Elliott and I chat at the Christian Resources Together gathering in September 2024, where I gave a keynote address and the closing devotional.

    I invite you to receive my monthly newsletter, with a prayer exercise, for ways to encounter God.

  • Prayerful meditation – Receiving God’s love

    God looks on us with love. Join me for a mini-retreat (for 10 minutes) in receiving God’s loving gaze, along with imagining yourself in the story of Jesus seeing the widow of Nain during the funeral procession of her only son from Luke’s gospel.

    Filmed at Upper Jenny’s at Lee Abbey, Lee Bay, Devon, England.

    For more prayer exercises, read my book 7 Ways to Pray and receive my monthly newsletter.

    You may wish to engage with this longer prayer practice on a day of retreat and refreshment. Feel free to pause the video and engage with God where he takes you.

  • Prayerful meditation – the road to Emmaus

    Join me in a prayer of imagining yourself in a gospel story, that of the two disciples walking away from Jerusalem on the road to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection. Their faces are downcast as they don’t understand what has happened, and then Jesus appears to them on the road, but they are kept from knowing it is him.

    You may wish to engage with this longer prayer practice on a day of retreat and refreshment. Feel free to pause the video and engage with God where he takes you.

    Join my monthly newsletter for more prayer practices and giveaways.

    Find out more about 7 Ways to Pray, including links for ordering and resources for small groups.

  • Praying for Emotional Healing with Thérèse of Lisieux

    Join me in the woods near to Penhurst Retreat Centre (near Battle in East Sussex, England) to ponder and pray through some of the words of Thérèse of Lisieux, known as the little flower. As part of this, we’ll engage in a prayer asking God for emotional healing, based on Thérèse’s thoughts.

    She saw the beauty of the ordinary flowers – the daisies and lilies as much as the roses. After all, what would be the glories of springtime if we only had roses? So too, how lovely is the garden of souls, made in the image of God with so much creativity and diversity.

    Join my monthly newsletter for more prayer practices.

    Find out more about 7 Ways to Pray, including links for ordering and resources for small groups.

  • A Prayer of Confession on Iona

    Join me before Iona Abbey as the sun rises as we ask Jesus the Light to clarify any areas of wrongdoing we are holding. God will always release us and welcome us to experience freedom and release.

    Join my monthly newsletter for more prayer practices.

    Find out more about 7 Ways to Pray, including links for ordering and resources for small groups.

  • The God of Abundance

    Will God really provide for you?

    Join me in pondering the God of abundance in the Ten Acre Gill near to Penhurst Retreat Centre. (A ‘gill’ is a wooded ravine.) What resources might he have for you that he’s inviting you to notice and pick? How is he providing for you in unexpected and delightful ways?

    I also share a simple but tasty recipe for wild garlic pesto.

    Join me on retreat! My list of dates for 2024 and some of 2025 is available on my speaking page.

  • God is with you

    Join me in practicing the presence of God on the beautiful shores of the island of Iona, in the inner Hebrides in Scotland. God loves when we welcome his presence in our lives – he’s always there with us!

    In the video I share this gorgeous Celtic prayer, as collected in the Carmina Gadelica:

    Come I this day to the Father,
    Come I this day to the Son,
    Come I this day to the Holy Spirit powerful:
    I come this day with God,
    I come this day with Christ,
    I come this day with the Spirit of kindly balm.

    God, and Spirit, and Jesus,
    From the crown of my head
    To the soles of my feet;
    Come I with my reputation,
    Come I with my testimony,
    Come I to Thee, Jesu – Jesu, shelter me.

    (Carmina Gadelica I, p. 69)

    Find out more about 7 Ways to Pray, including links for ordering and resources for small groups.

  • “Come to me when you’re weary…”

    Jesus knows when we’re weary. He bids us to come and rest with him; his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5SfFQzC1W6

    Join me at sunrise a few days after Easter in front of Iona Abbey in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland as we soak in these loving words of the Risen Jesus.

    I loved this island so much I’m planning on leading another pilgrimage/retreat next year, Lord willing, from 31 March to 5 April. Mark your calendars!

  • He’s not here! A reading of John 20 at the Garden Tomb

    Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

    I welcome you to join me and my husband, Nicholas Pye, celebrating the joy of Easter through a reading from John’s gospel. It details what happened that first Sunday when Jesus rose from the dead. Filmed on location at the Garden Tomb, Jerusalem, January 2023.

    You might also enjoy reading about the life-changing story of Charles Simeon one Easter morning in today’s Our Daily Bread.

    Enjoy this Resurrection Sunday!