Welcome to Daily Encouragement!
Hi, I’m Charlene Notgrass. I was born a long time before you, way back in 1953. I loved homeschooling — once I learned how to make homeschooling who our family was instead of something I carried around like a big, heavy burden every day. From the lessons God has taught me, I offer you daily encouragement.
When the People Stopped and Watched What God Was Doing
God creates one beautiful moment after another all over the earth. The sun rises. The sun sets. Waves crash. Turtles hatch. Lambs nurse. Clouds soar. So many marvelous things are happening all around us that too often we don’t stop…
Enjoy Your Surprises Today
I came across this photo several weeks ago on the Library of Congress website. Around 1946, photographer C. M. Stieglitz took this picture of cartoonist Roberta MacDonald drawing while her 15-month-old daughter, Patricia, watched her. MacDonald was a cartoonist for…
Precious, Precious Memories of Sweet, Sweet Folks
Yesterday I mentioned how Mother, my brother Steve, and I spent our Saturday evenings. Daddy wasn’t with us on the first of our Saturday evening errands but he was at our final destination of Boyd’s Market. Saturday was his longest…
I’m Thankful for All You Do
Yesterday I came across these adorable embroidered linens from 1943, which are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. They are part of a days-of-the-week needlecraft kit. According to the description on the Smithsonian…
Every Second Counts
As I sat down last night to write this post about the preciousness of time, I wondered how to illustrate it. Then I remembered a clock that Ray and I saw in 2014 when we were privileged to visit Vancouver,…
One Kind Man in a Parking Lot
After we left the St. Louis Art Museum last week, we drove to the nearby Turtle Playground in Forest Park. I was excited about returning to Turtle Playground as I remembered being there with our son and his sons back…