Thank you so much for joining me this week for the launch of my book! I hope you have been encouraged, blessed, and challenged to abide more and more constantly in God’s Word through this launch week. And if you got Memory’s Mind, I pray you find Kelton’s story a blessing that sticks with you and propels you nearer, still nearer to Jesus.
If you missed anything during this tour, you can always go back and find it:
February 12 – KICK-OFF DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – tour intro, Meditation Challenge+giveaway announcement
February 14 – COVER REVEAL/PREORDER FOR ROMANCE’S REST DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – Cover Reveal for Romance’s Rest, Meditation Challenge #1
Autumn Lehman at Bursting Through the Darkness – cover reveal
Kristina Hall at Kristina Hall – cover reveal
Hannah Killian at The Writerly Worm and Facebook – cover reveal
Morgan Giesbrecht on Instagram – cover reveal
Joy C. Woodbury at Discipleship with Joy – cover reveal
Vanessa Hall at Vanessa Hall – cover reveal
Katja Labonté at Old Fashioned Book Love– cover reveal
February 15 – FREE CHAPTER DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – Read the First Chapter for Free and Meditation Challenge #2
Autumn Lehman at Bursting Through the Darkness – Guest post by Erika on Practical Tips for Meditation
Stephanie Agnes-Crockett at Stephanie’s Ninth Suitcase, Instagram, and Facebook – Book review and paperback GIVEAWAY!
February 16 – BIBLE STUDY DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – Bible Study on Keep and Meditation Challenge #3
Joy C. Woodbury at Discipleship with Joy – Book spotlight and exclusive excerpt
Chelsea Burden at Light in the Tunnel – Guest post by Erika on Biblical Meditation
Stephanie Agnes-Crockett at Stephanie’s Ninth Suitcase, Instagram, and Facebook – Romance’s Rest cover reveal
February 17 – SALE DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – Taerna Books on Sale and Meditation Challenge #4
Chelsea Burden at Light in the Tunnel – cover reveal for Romance’s Rest
February 18 – LAUNCH DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – LAUNCH DAY! Meditation Challenge #5
Kristina Hall at Kristina Hall and on Instagram – Book spotlight and exclusive excerpt
Autumn Lehman at Bursting Through the Darkness – Book spotlight and exclusive excerpt
Morgan Giesbrecht on Instagram
February 19 – WRAP-UP DAY
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – Giveaway Winner + Meditation Challenge Wrapup
Katja Labonté at Old Fashioned Book Love and Instagram – Book spotlight, exclusive excerpt, and review
Vanessa Hall at Vanessa Hall and Goodreads – Book spotlight and exclusive excerpt
But wait! There’s more! Some lovely bloggers will be reviewing Memory’s Mind in the next few weeks, and I can’t wait to hear what they have to say.
March 1 – BOOK REVIEW SPOTLIGHT
Erika Mathews at Resting Life – What Readers are Saying
Vanessa Hall at Vanessa Hall and Goodreads – Book review
Two other bloggers are posting about Memory’s Mind today. Don’t forget to check them out!
Katja Labonté at Old Fashioned Book Love and Instagram – Book spotlight, exclusive excerpt, and review
Vanessa Hall at Vanessa Hall and Goodreads – Book spotlight and exclusive excerpt
And now… the moment you’ve been waiting for!
Who won the Meditation Challenge giveaway??
It’s You!
Really. If you participated in the challenge, there is no prize I could give you that is greater than the one you’ve gained this week through meditating on Scripture. I truly hope you continue. I hope you go to your “meditation spot” or head out on a “meditation walk” today. I hope you ponder a passage in your head while you go to bed tonight. I hope you continue meditating on the Ten Commandments. I pray that Scripture fills up more and more of your mind throughout the day. For that is the true reward.
Look at just this small glimpse of a few of the things God has done in and through you in just these five short days!
| WHAT MEDITATORS ARE SAYING |
| 1 Corinthians 13:1-3: “It has helped me to see areas where I am not being loving and showing myself prideful in how much knowledge, wisdom, and giving I have.” |
| John 15:10-11: “Our joy may not be the way it’s supposed to be, but that doesn’t matter because we get Jesus’ joy!” |
| Hebrews 10:16: “I was struck again by the way in which He takes the responsibility for the covenant: ‘*I* will put…'” |
| Exodus 20:1-3: “I want God to be the only One I worship, not just the top, but the only. Not just the one I but above all other idols, but THE ONLY!” |
| Exodus 20:4: “He showed me some idols I may have in my life (or may be tempted to have), and reminded me that He is a jealous God, and He desires all my love and attention!” |
| I Corinthians 13:4-5: “I certainly can’t love others as He has called me.” |
| Matthew 6:32: “I was struck again by the fact that God already knows what we need & what we’re worried for.” |
| 2 Corinthians 4:16: “I was really struck by the contrast between the outward and inward – I looked up the words and “Perish” literally means, “rot thoroughly” while “is renewed” means to “renovate”. I liked the contrast between the utter decay and the renovation – an upgrade, if you will. It was a cool thought that while our outward man may rot away, our inner man is being renovated daily!” |
| Exodus 20:5-6: “Visit: to go to see in order to comfort or help. ‘I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him.’ They hate Him, yet he visits, points out their sin and says, ‘I’m here to comfort, to show you the way to redemption.’” |
| Revelation 5: 1-20: “Nobody is worthy to enter heaven, but by God’s grace we are allowed in, but your actions count, so you still have to act in kindness, honesty, and love.” |
| 1 Corinthians 13:6-8: “I need to be careful of my reactions to others and be quick to seek forgiveness for not loving others as He loves me. I need to repent.” |
| 2 Corinthians 4:17-18: “I marveled how our afflictions could be ‘light’ and ‘for a moment’ and looking up the literal translations of the words highlighted that momentariness as well as calling the ‘light affliction’ a ‘light pressure’ – which somehow gave me the sense of something pressing on your arm or hand – firm, yet not actually hurting that much, versus the ‘weight’ of glory so heavy we almost can’t bear it!! I remember hearing a story of a man who used to say ‘May the Lord bless you so much you can hardly stand it!’ and that’s kind of what I thought of!!” |
| Exodus 20:7: “God’s name is precious and holy, and it can’t be thrown around mindlessly. It also cannot be used as a cover for our sin.” |
| Leviticus 26:9: “God showed me that He wants to bless us. I know this might sound super simple, but I needed that reminder.” |
| Testimony: “I feel happier and more grateful today than I have in quite awhile! God is good.” |
| 2 Samuel 14:14: I loved the meanings of the words that gave “devise means” a sense of weaving a plan, which made me think of how we plot stories 😉 and I also found it cool that “banished” and “expelled” were the same word in Hebrew, which made the whole phrase say that God “weaves a plan, that his banished be not banished” – it was such a cool thought, as well as a really comforting one!! God has made a way for His banished to be brought back!! |
And look at ALL THIS SCRIPTURE that has been lodged in our minds and hearts, pondered repeated, and used to hear the voice of God this week! What a reward that is!
(Feel free to download and save any of these images to use as a reminder to set your mind on the Word of God.)
And, in tiny token of that reward, I’m thrilled to grant a smaller prize to one of you. I’m honored to announce that the winner of the Memory’s Mind Meditation Challenge giveaway is…
LILY!
Congratulations!
Remember, you can still preorder Romance’s Rest! It’s currently 50% off and it’s coming April 21. If you’d like to join the launch team, you can do so here.
“Now go waste time with Adon Olam. He wasted a lot of time on you.”
Memory’s Mind, Erika Mathews
I loved participating in this, Erika!! I wish I’d been here since Day 1, but I had a lot of fun regardless. This challenge also helped me get started with art in my journaling Bible (I’d been procrastinating on that for months and months…). You are blessed, and I’m grateful for you! <33