Time to Refresh: A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Sidelined

By Karen Brown Tyson

Are you looking for a way to deal with a setback? Do you sometimes feel left out or alone? God understands how you feel. During our most challenging times and circumstances, God wants us to turn to Him for comfort, deliverance, and guidance.

In Time to Refresh: A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Si

• Language: English
• Publisher: Constant Communicators
• Release date: Aug 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780578583297

Karen Brown Tyson

For the past 25 years, Karen worked as a public relations and communications executive for Fortune 500 companies in the fast food, pharmaceutical, and telecommunication industries. Today, Karen is a communicator, blogger, coach and Bible teacher focused on inspiring people through her writing. Her first book, Time to Refresh: A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Sidelined, was one of her first assignments from heaven after saying goodbye to corporate life. She is the founder of Constant Communicators, a lifestyle business that helps people improve their writing skills. Karen lives in North Carolina with her husband and son.

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Table of Contents

Time to Refresh: A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Sidelined

Day 1–Time to Rest

Day 2–Time to Pray

Day 3–Time for Faith

Day 4–Time for Hope

Day 5–Time to Submit

Day 6–Time to Listen

Day 7–Time to Forgive

Day 8 – Time to Love

Day 9–Time to Focus

Day 10–Time to Study

Day 11–Time to Castoff

Day 12–Time to Obey

Day 13–Time for Sacrifice

Day 14 — Time for Patience

Day 15–Time for Surrender

Day 16–Time to Wrestle

Day 17–Time to Speak

Day 18–Time to Fellowship

Day 19–Time to Give

Day 20–Time for Battle

Day 21–Time to Win

Time to Refresh

A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Sidelined

By Karen Brown Tyson

Copyright © 2018 by Karen Brown Tyson

Published by Constant Communicators, LLC.™

Most of the book’s Scriptures are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Additional Scripture taken from: 

The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

New American Standard Bible.  Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation

New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Day 1 - Time to Rest

Day 2 — Time to Pray

Day 3 — Time for Faith

Day 4 — Time for Hope

Day 5 — Time to Submit

Day 6 — Time to Listen

Day 7 — Time to Forgive

Words of Advice

Day 8 — Time to Love

Day 9 — Time to Focus

Day 10 — Time to Study

Day 11 — Time to Castoff

Day 12 — Time to Obey

Day 13—Time to Sacrifice

Day 14 — Time for Patience

Words of Advice

Day 15 — Time to Surrender

Day 16–Time to Wrestle

Day 17 — Time to Speak

Day 18 — Time to Fellowship

Day 19-Time to Give

Day 20 — Time for Battle

Day 21 — Time to Win

Words of Advice

A Personal Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes

Introduction

We all have busy lives. As women, we are wives, mothers, executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, teachers, students and so much more. Our days and nights are full. 

We move from one task to the next. Picking up this and dropping off that. Sometimes we go on retreats, take vacations or carve out time for a sabbatical. We are always on the go.

But what happens when some part of our life comes to a screeching halt? Like when we get laid off from our jobs, or we don’t get the job we want? We don't make the team, or something interrupts our education? What happens when we have one less thing to do on our to-do list? What are we supposed to do with our time while we sit on the sidelines of life?

I faced this question in 2017 when I got laid off. In my 25-year career as a professional communicator, this was my third time being laid off. My first experience was awful; I was a newlywed, and I wanted to do my part in contributing to our household expenses. But instead of being a happy, newly married woman, I was stressed, depressed, worried, angry, scared, and just plain miserable all the time. I was so anxious and desperate to get a new job I ended up taking a job at a public relations firm that was not a good fit. That was the year I learned about God’s perfect and permissive will. 

The second time I got laid