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

  • “Come away with me and rest”

    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…

  • “God to Enfold Me” – an ancient Celtic prayer

    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.…

  • A prayer to the Triune God

    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…

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