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    Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation
    Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation
    Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation
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    Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

    By Susie Davis

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    With Dear Daughters, Susie Davis creates a bridge between two groups of women–dear daughters and spiritual mamas. Dear daughters are young women in search of spiritual guidance and spiritual mamas are women just a little further down the road with age-old wisdom to share. Each group has valuable insight for the other and the hope is that the reader will invite someone to come alongside them, pore over the included letters together, and pass along wisdom and advice that will make both lives more beautiful, wherever they are in their God story.

    This book, ideal for a gift, is a casebound hardcover with ribbon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateApr 16, 2019
    ISBN9781501881077
    Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation
    Author

    Susie Davis

    Susie Davis is an author, speaker and co-founder of Austin Christian Fellowship. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Will Davis, Jr., and they have three delightful young adult children (Will III, Emily, and Sara) who are all married and living their own beautiful life. Susie’s podcast, Dear Daughters, is full of wisdom and joy, offering women young and old the kind of comfort and companionship they crave. Aside from family and ministry, Susie is hopelessly addicted to horseback riding, McDonald’s coffee, and pink geraniums. She loves bird watching, creek walking, and connecting the dots between God and nature. Her favorites include cooking, gathering people at her big French farm table, and asking deep questions. Visit her website: www.susiedavis.org.

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      Dear Daughters - Susie Davis

      Introduction

      For over a decade, younger women clustered around me like hummingbirds to purple salvia. Swooping into my life for a season, gathering fuel to live a purposeful and spiritual life. I had no idea way back then why I should be graced by this charm; I only knew they peered attentively at me over my kitchen counter. They spilled open their hearts, all honest and vulnerable, while I soaped up dishes. Some sat at my dining room table eating Sunday supper with my family, tucked in beside us as our own. Others joined us on family trips.

      These girls often called or texted me. Some even Skyped and FaceTimed. Over the years, we’ve met together in small groups for Bible study or book clubs. We’ve attended cooking classes together and gone on writing retreats. We’ve taken small-town excursions, planted flowers in my front yard, and had happy hour on my back patio. Year in and year out, no matter the season, it seemed that there was always a younger woman by my side. It was natural, organic. And they were all looking for the same thing: the nectar of age and wisdom that only an older woman provides. Who knew nectar was sourced from a forty-something-year-old woman whose face was etched with expression lines and whose life carried a long history of learning things the hard way with God?

      This mentoring of young women started when my oldest child, Will (now in his early thirties), was a senior in high school. Four of his friends asked me if I would lead them in a Bible study. They sensed the big transition from high school to college had the opportunity to knock them off balance and they wanted an older woman to teach them how to move gracefully from one season to the next.

      The mentoring opportunity happened again when I was on a class trip abroad with my second child, Emily (now in her late twenties), during her senior year in high school. In the absence of having their own moms on the trip, Emily’s friends and peers cloistered around me when they needed a mother figure. It was actually on that trip that the girls started calling me Mama Suz—an endearing term they created meant to offer respect coupled with fond familiarity.

      By the time my youngest child, Sara (now in her midtwenties), entered college, Mama Suz was the way all my kids introduced me to their friends. I was firmly established as a mother figure. Someone my own children would refer their friends to in seasons of confusion or grief. Someone ready to take a call, meet over coffee, or serve up a home-cooked meal.

      Then the mentor opportunities started happening online. Young women I never met in person reached out to me on social media, asking for guidance and wisdom. At ministry events, girls sought me out, thanking me for encouraging them through my short open-letter posts written for my daughters on Instagram, Facebook, and my blog.

      Though I didn’t know it then, I was fulfilling a call on my life. Through my mothering, I was doing the good things God planned for me long ago.¹

      Yep, simply by opening my heart and making room for more than just my children, I was fulfilling a great commission on my life, participating in a special ministry that God fashioned for me²—to encourage the dear daughters in my world to love God body, heart, and mind in their unique situations. To train young women to be strengthened in the inner being.³

      After over a decade of being available to mother the young people in my proximity and beyond, I have discovered God’s specific ministry plan for me: to boldly encourage and lead dear daughters. And this is the simple way I do it: by being a spiritual mama.

      It’s not complicated. It doesn’t require a degree in counseling or theology. It just means I stay authentically connected to Jesus. It means I am doggedly determined to maintain and remember my identity as an older woman. Not someone looking to be popular or hip or eternally young; rather a woman who is sober to the ways of the Spirit. Enthused and identified with the things of God. Someone who does not let her own struggles and disappointments get in the way of her children’s best interest. This is my heart for the dear daughters God brings me. As long as there are young women in need of spiritual guidance, I will be a minister of the gospel. But even more: I will be a spiritual mother.

      Though I struggled when my own children left the nest, I have realized this amazing truth: a woman never need have an empty nest. And so, a mother’s job is never over.

      The world is full of dear daughters who need a godly woman a few steps ahead. They need someone to help them navigate life as a young woman in all the seasons of life: during college, starting a new job, marrying a man, becoming a

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