Amy Boucher Pye

Hi, I’m Amy!

As a writer and spiritual director, I love helping people encounter the living God. Welcome to this space of prayer practices, opportunities to retreat, and resources to strengthen your spiritual life.

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Explore different ways to pray that are time-tested but fresh. Connect with God through these guided experiences of prayer for a mini-retreat.

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Encounter God through my writing, including my devotional articles and my seven books and resources. Still Finding Myself in Britain has just been released – the updated ten-year anniversary edition of this award-winning book.

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Accompanying people as they walk with God is a privilege and a joy, as we notice together the movements of their soul. Find out more about this hidden work of God.

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I’ve led retreats and pilgrimages for over a decade in the UK and beyond, including at Lee Abbey, Devon, the island of Iona, and Penhurst on England’s south coast. I love helping people unwind and receive God’s love. Join me!

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Meet Amy

Amy Boucher Pye is a London-based writer, speaker, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She’s the author of seven books and resources, including 7 Ways to Pray and Holding onto Hope, featuring her dad’s artwork. She loves helping people encounter the living, loving God.

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Recent blog posts

  • The Surrendered Life, a meditation by Oswald Chambers

    As one of those tasked with caring for Oswald and Biddy Chambers’ books and resources, I love sharing from their wisdom. Here is my adaptation of “The Relinquished Life,” from My Utmost for His Highest, the wonderful new modern classic edition recently published that shares the goodness and authenticity of their message in today’s language.…

  • A Prayer for Ash Wednesday

    Join me in this prayer from the Church of England as we begin with Lent, the 40 days of prayer, fasting, and giving as we prepare for Easter. Holy God,our lives are laid open before you:rescue us from the chaos of sinand through the death of your Sonbring us healing and make us wholein Jesus…

  • Enjoying a Good Lent

    Easter is early this year, which means that Lent of course starts early too! Ash Wednesday is on 18 February, just over a week away. How might you spend this time leading up to Easter? Feel daunted by the traditional approach of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving? Lent can be a time for those practices, of…

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