Refresh – “Reset” for Women

You may recall my posts on David Murray’s profitable book for men, Reset (Crossway, 2017). Now, he and his wife Shona have collaborated on a version for women – Refresh: Embracing a Grace-Paced Life in  a World of Demands (Crossway, 2017).

While Dr. David Murray is a pastor (Free Reformed Church) and professor (Puritan Reformed Seminary), his wife is a medical doctor. Being married with busy careers and raising five children together means they know the stresses and strains of life in our do-it-all, burn-out society. But as Reformed Christians, they also know the refreshing, resetting character of God’s sovereign grace in Jesus Christ. And it is about that that they write in this book, this time specifically with our overwhelmed women, wives, mothers, and daughters in view.

Crossway gives this brief introduction to the book on its website:

“I feel so overwhelmed.”

Do you race from one thing to the next, unable to keep up with all the demands of your ever-growing to-do list? Are you overcommitted and overstretched, but don’t know how to slow down when the world just says to speed up? Is there any hope for rest in a world of never-ending demands?

Many women don’t realize they’re running at an unsustainable pace until it hurts them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Drawing on many years of counseling and their own experiences of burnout, wife and husband team Shona and David Murray want to help you slow down to a more grace-paced life—enabling you to avoid the pitfall of burnout, cultivate sustainable habits for the future, and experience the rest of body and soul that God intends for you.

I have received a review copy and would love to see one of our ladies take it and do a short review of it. If you are interested, please contact me here or at my email address.

Perhaps before the book gets taken we can take a further look at it and pull a few choice quotes from it.