Susan Davidson
I am a country girl from a small town nestled in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. I love discovering something new in God's word, sipping on my favorite coffee and enjoying the simple things in life. And I love to write about all the everyday stuff in between. My hope is that the things I share on my page will encourage and inspire you to find God's purpose for your own everyday journey.
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Waiting for Good
Key Verse: Isaiah 40:31 “but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings of eagles; they shall run and not be weary: they shall walk and not faint.” Waiting in line. Waiting for my turn. Waiting to turn 18. Waiting to say “I do”. Waiting for the storm to pass. Waiting for the test results. Waiting till the leaves change. Waiting for my loved one to feel better. Waiting for my dad to take his last breath. Waits. Some are sad. Some are full of anticipation. Some we hope pass quickly. Some we hope they never end. No matter what your…
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Signs Matter
I did it again. I hung my All About Me sign on my door. It crookedly covered the letters on my ‘Everyone is Welcome’ sign. It wasn’t at all pretty. I’m not sure how long it had been hanging there, and it took someone else to remind me to take it down. As I pulled through the drive-thru, I smiled when the young cashier handed me my order and said there was no charge. The person in front of me had generously paid on my behalf. My mind was a whirl as I drove off. I thought how sweet they were for thinking of me. I thought about how much I…
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Have You Considered?
“Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storehouse or a barn; yet God feeds them.” Luke 12:24 (CSB) Consider….. I was stressed and worried so at a time like that why would God tell me to consider. Honestly, at a time like this it was hard to make a conscious effort to think “carefully about and believe”. I knew He was asking me to get still and it felt impossible to get still in the middle of all my stress. I admit that I’ve always been a stressor and worrier. People close to me already know this about me. I spend a lot of time…
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Homemade “Gourmet” Potato Soup
Fall is my favorite season. I love all when the leaves start to change colors on the mountains around my house and the cool nip in the air. I enjoy decorating the house with all the oranges and gold colors and wearing big chunky sweaters. Put this together with a big cup of Pumpkin Spice coffee and a big bowl of my homemade “gourmet” potato soup, and this girl is in her happy place. There is just something about a big bowl of soup and the cool days of fall that hits the spot. One of my favorite soups is a simple recipe I picked up from a friend several years ago.…
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The Power in Small Words
Key Verse: “Be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you will have success wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7 (CSB) But….. It is hard to believe just how much power a three letter word can hold over me. Power that I can at times freely give to it. I have been known to let it hover over me for days until I am unable to move forward. It weakens my faith and stirs my heart to question all the wonderful promises God has for me. As I read Joshua 1, I let my…
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Jesus Visits Messy Houses
You get the TV and I will get the door. We then sat there in silence until the tapping on the door had stopped and we heard the car leave the driveway. In a few minutes, they were gone. We had pulled it off. We had made them think that we weren’t home. We now laugh about that incident with my mom. I can’t quite remember why she didn’t want that person to visit on that particular day. Perhaps she just wasn’t in the mood to talk or maybe she hadn’t had time to pick the clutter up. Whether you have ever gone to extremes to avoid company like my…
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When You Can’t Do One More Thing
Key Verse: Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. (Matthew 26:39) Lord, I do not want to do this….. Yes, that was my prayer. Have you ever prayed a prayer like me? I admit it didn’t seem like much of a prayer but honestly that was all the words I had left in me. Life and all my responsibilities that went with it just started to add up leaving me feeling completely overwhelmed. Overwhelmed and honestly….unwilling. Actually, a whole lot of unwillingness in my moment of weakness. That one more thing I had to do on my…
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Ball Park Lemonade
I have so many special memories of summers from my childhood. One such memory was sipping my mom’s homemade lemonade on the porch swing in the late afternoons. My mom still makes the best lemonade in three counties, and there was no better way growing up to end a long, hot day. Nothing in life was better except for the great conversation and laughs on that old porch swing. I have since made memories with my daughter. Memories that include our favorite lemonade. As I’ve gotten older and a lot busier, I admit I tend to do things a little differently than my mom. I have a few unique…
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When God is at Rest During Your Storm
“The Lord said unto me, I will take my rest and will look from My dwelling place like clear heat in the sunshine and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” Isaiah 18:4 ( KJV) My situation was already bad. But things just went from bad to worse. I had prayed. I was still showing up in church. I had read that devotion. I had even wrote that devotion. And yet, things had gotten worse. I had no doubt God sees me. And he saw my situation. He even saw it get worse to the point that I didn’t know what I was going to do. And…
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Life Lessons
In my current season of being a caregiver, it leaves me little time for myself to do the things I enjoy doing. I also find it hard to steal away time alone to pray. Each day of my husband’s journey with Multiple Schlerosis gets harder as the disease takes more and more from each of us. So as I joined an online My One Thing summer coaching group led by author Nicki Koziarz, I found myself making going on a prayer walk a mile to two a day as “my one thing goal”. I set my goal and I was determined to show up faithfully every single day for the…
