Tea Light Moments for Women released April 2010 April 30, 2010

For Mother’s Day gift giving or as a selection for a summertime devotional, my new book Tea Light Moments for Women (9.99/288 pages, Harvest House) released April 2010. It’s a lovely hardcover gift edition that combines Tea Light Moments for a Woman’s Soul and Tea Light Moments to Refresh Your Day in one volume.

Here is the description:

Hope Lyda, author of the One-Minute Prayer books (more than 700,000 copies sold) and One Minute with God devotions, gathers select meditations from her Tea Light Moments for a Woman’s Soul and Tea Light Moments to Refresh Your Day in this lovely, padded-hardcover edition.

Blending faith, insight, and compassion, these devotions encourage women to take an inspirational break during their day to savor

•  refreshing quotes from Scripture and literature
• reflections exploring wonder, contentment, and purpose  
• prayer offerings of connection and hope

Tea Light Moments for Women is beautifully designed and sized for gift giving and for women to enjoy times of restoration and celebration in every season of life.

Order via amazon or other online venue, ask for it at your favorite bookstore, or send orders to me: Hope Lyda PO. Box 72174 Eugene OR 97401. Include book title and $9.99 plus $2 shipping per book and indicate whether you want the book signed TO anyone. 

I hope your spring is full of possibility and wonder. -Hope

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Writing Retreat January 4, 2009

I’m savoring my last night of a personal writing retreat. Chose to stay in a city neighborhood that I used to live in. It’s been a great escape from routine and has helped open up my thoughts. Sitting in front of a blank screen can be painful…it is an act of perseverance to keep staring at it until something surfaces and makes its way to the keyboard. I’m working on my next book of meditations which is why I like to wait out the chaos in my head before I start writing. Doesn’t always happen that way. My goal for this trip was to press on in the writing and to not pause long enough to go back and judge, tear apart, delete what I wrote earlier in the day. So far I’ve been successful.

I’m grateful for a change of view. Shifting “place” always works to shift my perspective and ideas. When I try to write from my normal perch at home, I find that I cycle through the same thoughts for hours. It’s important to shake up routine and to take in fresh sights and sounds.  Back to staring at the screen…with gratitude.