Refreshed

Vacations often give us an opportunity to rest and reflect. However, when our normal routines and habits are suspended, it can be hard to spend time with God.

These 30 devotions have been specifically designed to help you to rest in the Lord’s goodness and glory during your time away so that you can return home feeling refreshed spiritually as well as physically.

Author John Hindley, who also wrote Serving without Sinking, says this:

“I want to help you find rest, peace, joy, hope, and renewed zeal. We go away to be refreshed. Christ is the one who sets his Spirit in our hearts to cause streams of living water to well up within us and flow from us. Sometimes we rest away from Jesus, but how much better to rest with and in him? He is where our true refreshment is found.”

You can pick and choose which devotions to read depending on the type of vacation you are on (for example, city break or beach) and there are optional family activities and questions linked to each devotion giving other family members an opportunity to reflect alongside you.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction
4. Arriving
5. Chapter 1: Hopes and Fears
6. Chapter 2: A Bright Shadow
7. Rest
8. Chapter 3: Weary and Heavy Laden
9. Chapter 4: Stopping
10. Friends and Family
11. Chapter 5: Visiting
12. Chapter 6: Tensions
13. Skies
14. Chapter 7: Stars
15. Chapter 8: Sun
16. Chapter 9: Rain
17. Beach
18. Chapter 10: The Calm Sea
19. Chapter 11: The Wild Sea
20. Chapter 12: Sand
21. Chapter 13: Sandcastles
22. Pool
23. Chapter 14: Cool Waters
24. Hills and Mountains
25. Chapter 15: Heaven Meets Earth
26. Chapter 16: False Worship
27. Chapter 17: Snowy Peaks
28. Forests
29. Chapter 18: Trees of Life
30. Chapter 19: Consider the Birds
31. Farmland
32. Chapter 20: Farmers and Farmhands
33. Chapter 21: Sowing and Reaping
34. Chapter 22: Shepherding
35. Cities
36. Chapter 23: Great Babylon
37. Chapter 24: Temples
38. Chapter 25: Statues and Monuments
39. Wild Country
40. Chapter 26: God Sees
41. Chapter 27: God Provides
42. Chapter 28: God Brings Us Home
43. Leaving
44. Chapter 29: Ending with Praise
45. Chapter 30: Another Bright Shadow
46. Closing Credits