Amy Boucher Pye

Category: Prayer Exercise

  • 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.

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    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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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)

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  • “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.

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    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!

  • Jesus’ hour – joining into the story

    As we move through the events of Holy Week, I invite you to enter into the “Gethsemane moment” in John’s gospel, from John 12. Some Greeks – simply meaning those who were not Jewish – appeared before several of the disciples and asked if they could see Jesus. This to Jesus signified that his hour had come, and he set his face to the cross.

    Here is the link to the video where I lead this prayer exercise, hosted by Coracle.

    This prayer exercise forms part of the online course that Waverley Abbey Trust produced on The Prayers of Jesus, complete with small-group guide.

    Let me know if you use this prayer exercise, and if you’re willing, how God met you. May entering the story of Jesus and his hour enrich your faith in him and your love for others.

  • Spiritual practices for the new year

    Want to make a change in the new year but not make a bunch of resolutions? Here are 3 simple but profound and life-changing spiritual practices you could incorporate into your life as we launch into 2024.

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    Thinking about choosing a word for the year? Here are my blogs on the topic. I love this practice!

    May you know the presence of our loving God this day, this week, this month, and this year.

  • A prayer for the new year

    Happy new year! I’m glad to share this prayer for 2024 by George Dawson from the 1800s – still applicable today.

    You might also want to consider three simple prayer practices you might want to add in the new year to strengthen your relationship with God. Read the blog hosted at God Hears Her here.

    I pray you will have a peaceful and joyous start to the new year as you cling to the loving presence of God.