GOD BLESS YOU!

 

Hi, I'm Donavon Davies, and I'm the Founder of Celestial Slumber. I'm thankful that you were able to take some time to visit our website. I hope you find the products helpful to you, or even better, as an evangelical gift for a friend or family member.

 

 

It all began like this...

 

The short story...

 

Feeling down in the dumps, and probably going through an undiagnosed nervous breakdown, I found myself unemployed for over a year, living with my new wife and two year old daughter in my mother-in- law's house. I was questioning life, how did I get to this point? It felt basically like a "Grand Opening, Grand Closing" scenario--only it wasn't on a business, it was on my life. Things were bad, lots of things were bad. I have always been spiritual, so I woke up one woke up one morning, wanting to pray, but having nothing to say to God. I just smashed my head back down in the pillow. When I picked my head up the second time, I thought "I wish I had the words right here, I wish I had the prayer to say right here."

 

The long story...

 

Just fresh out of college scene and at 24 I was a father, husband, and even a home owner! (This was in 2006 so you can image the real estate prices.) Everything is great right? Well, I was having a very difficult time as a young man with all this responsibility. Mostly because I didn't have certainty in the work I should be doing. I really didn't like my job. Proverbs 24:27 say: “Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.” I knew God gave me talents. He gave me many and varied. My most prevalent was “creating” new products and businesses—thanks be to God. Knowing this I began to turn my attention to creating products. So, in 2007, I decide to walk away from my administrative work and go create products and build businesses. I mostly want to create products that would glorify God. This was not an easy task, in this sinful fallen world we all share. Almost like, “the sun will come out tomorrow”, Celestial Slumber was born. I say that because, on the day it was born, I was in the midst of the storm. Waking up one morning in my Mother-in-laws apartment on a hot summer morning, I was unemployed, for almost a year, still confused about my Brothers death, realizing that after only a year and a half of residence, I just sold families new condo… I woke up and did not want to get up...and I did not want to stay where I was. I felt stuck. I smashed my face back in the pillow and really rubbed it deep in. So deep in fact that I wished it swallowed me. I knew I was better than where I was, I knew God had more, but it felt like I was stuck, like I wasn’t going to be moving from that season for a while. Simply to be still. You see, I was still thankful, and humbled, and loving God for being Good. I still wanted my God, I wanted that connection. I wanted to pray, and for probably the first time . (It may have been the first time I took notice of it, but knowingly now, this has happen to me many times since then). It was in that moment that morning that it came to me: . I knew that it would have helped me in the very moment, and I know today that it can help many others in the those harsh times as well. Being out of work so long, I had been looking into developing my skills and possibly a new trade. I noticed a trend of less skilled workers and craftsmen and wanted to have a skill that I could have for life. A friend of mine was in the tee shirt printing business, so I decided I would give that a look. It was actually fun at first. A very messy process, but a cool trade nonetheless. The atmosphere was excellent--great friends, and a great studio. I was a sponge and I learned to print quickly. It wasn’t long until I had the very first Prayer Pillowcase printed. One of the earlier versions had the prayer: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” As you can see by the word “die” in there, the product wasn’t an instance mass hit. It took time to build and develop. I enjoyed every moment. Many long nights, many misprints, and false starts, and late starts. I stuck with it because I knew that God had something in store. Something maybe I may never taste a fruit from, but that generations after would reap. After many months of searching the scriptures, and fiddling with the design concept, the Flagship Prayer Pillowcase was born. I am proud of this product for the fact that it is loaded with promises from God, and scripture that can evoke, encourage, and empower prayer at anytime- day or night.