Be Refreshed: A Year of Devotions for Women in the Workplace
Passionate, authentic, faithful women in the workplace, you are not alone.
Women make up 47 percent of the workforce with over 50 percent of advanced degrees going to women (up from 6 percent thirty years ago). Despite these advances, women in the workplace often feel like they’re on their own. They battle gender and pay gaps, work-life balance, and guilt—longing for connection and belonging in their churches and community.
Be Refreshed contains encouraging devotional readings for Monday through Friday, along with questions and a prayer for reflection and refreshment each weekend. Take a year to read words and wisdom from women, just like you, who want to be bold in every aspect of life and seek to make a difference on a daily basis.
Begin each day with the strength that only comes from being in God’s Word and walking with other women like you.
—Shaunti Feldhahn, social researcher and best-selling author of For Women Only
Growing up, my father put a sticker on every mirror in our home that read, “Happiness is a habit, today is the happiest day of my life, I’m God’s greatest miracle.” As a little girl, these words gave me confidence to face each day. As a woman, I get my strength from attending daily mass and reading the Bible and daily devotionals. Be Refreshed will be added to my daily ritual.
—Dina Dwyer-Owens, Cochair of The Dwyer Group, Inc.; appeared on Undercover Boss
—Liz Bohannon, Founder, Sseko Designs; appeared on Shark Tank
Be Refreshed: Devotions for Women in the Workplace is a glimpse into the heart of everyday women who are living full lives and caring for their families, work, and communities while putting God first. These devotions are their moments, stories, and history with God. They show how Scripture has been an anchor and foundation in the midst of juggling what can sometimes be just too much. Be Refreshed is a fresh wind in your sails, steering you to connect with God and live the full life you are so beautifully called to!
—Laura Stafford, Designer for Joanna Gaines at Magnolia
—Erin Botsford, CEO of Botsford Financial Group; Author of The Big Retirement Risk: Running out of Money before You Run out of Time; Guest on Wealth Track with Consuelo Mack; named multiple times to Barron’s magazine list of “The Top 100 Independent Financial Advisers” and “The Top 100 Women Financial Advisers”; 4word Board Member
Along with inspirational reflections to spur you on as you head for work, Be Refreshed contains an added bonus—the welcome reminder coming from the collective voices in this book that you are not alone. You belong to a growing company of women God is calling to serve Him in the workplace. Be refreshed!
—Carolyn Custis James, Author of Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women and The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules; 4word Advisory Board Member
—Marissa Peterson, former COO of Sun Microsystems; former 4word Advisory Board Member
Christian women today are running businesses, leading nonprofits, raising children, volunteering at church, and serving as devoted wives and friends. I have no doubt God is using these women powerfully for his purposes. But all this easily brings with it exhaustion and depletion—which is why this deep yet digestible devotional from Diane Paddison is a key resource for today’s professional women. Short daily reflections from a variety of leaders are a great way to start each busy day.
—Katelyn Beaty, Christianity Today Editor at Large; Author of A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World
Product Details
- Title : Be Refreshed: A Year of Devotions for Women in the Workplace
- Authors:
- Paddison, Diane
- Johnstone, Jordan
- Bachelder, Cheryl
- Hudson, Sharron
- Publisher: Broadstreet Publishing Group, LLC
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781424555666
DIANE PADDISON, 4word women Founder and President, is a Harvard MBA graduate, former global executive of two Fortune 500 companies and one Fortune 1000 company, and serves as an independent director for two corporations and four organizations, one being the Salvation Army’s National Advisory Board. A leading advocate for Christian women in the workplace, Diane published Work, Love, Pray in 2011, laying the foundation for 4word women. She authors weekly posts at 4wordwomen.org and is a featured columnist for other publications. Diane and her husband, Chris, have four children and live in Dallas, Texas.
JORDAN JOHNSTONE, 4word Digital Community Manager, is a working mom in Atlanta, Georgia, who spends her days balancing her dream career as a writer and creative communicator, and her dream role as a mom and wife. Jordan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Full Sail University and a BS in Advertising and Public Relations from Liberty University. She writes weekly on 4Wordwomen.org and oversees the digital community team as they work to reach the global community of women in the workplace.
Additional contributors from 4wordwomen.org include:
CHERYL BACHELDER – Highlighted in Inc. Magazine 6/8/2017
ERIN BOTSFORD – Highlighted in Barron’s Magazine in the Wall Street Journal 6/6/2017
CHARITY WALLACE (former senior advisor to former First Lady Laura Bush for eight years in the White House and six years at the Bush Center)
DINA DWYER-OWENS (co-chair of The Dwyer Group, Inc.; appeared on Undercover Boss)
ELLEN BARKER (SVP, CIO Texas Instruments – Highest ranking woman at TI)
JAXIE ALT (senior vice president of marketing, Dr Pepper Snapple Group)
KATELYN BEATY (author of A Woman’s Place; editor at large of Christianity Today magazine)
JULIE ZIGLAR NORMAN (keynote speaker, author, coach, and daughter of Zig Ziglar)
MELISSA HINNANT (owner/designer of Grace and Lace; appeared on Shark Tank)
SHAUNTI FELDHAHN (social researcher; best-selling author of For Women Only and The Kindness Challenge)
And many more.
4word women’s vision is to build a global community of women in the workplace. That these passionate, real, faithful women will “be bold” in every aspect of their lives . . . spiritual, relational and professional. We do this through the 4word: Digital Community, 4word: Local Groups, and 4word: Mentor Program. There resources are provided through 4word: Church Connect and 4word: Corporate Connect.