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.
Of Critters and Contentment
When you live in a house built between the 1840s and the 1880s, you just never know what you are going to find inside, outside, under the house, or up the chimney! Ray and I had been married for decades…
How to Teach What Your Child Needs to Know
Article after article, speaker after speaker, and company after company claim to have the answer to how you can teach what your child needs to know. Sometimes it seems there are books and rule charts and flash cards and methods ad…
What Your Child Needs to Know
On Sunday night while I was writing to you about the need children have for things that are real and using the example of substituting margarine for real butter, I searched for the word substitute in the Bible. I found this verse from…
No Substitutions Allowed
I always buy real butter now, but I grew up on margarine. The first time I remember buying real butter was one Christmastime when Ray and I were living in Mississippi, and my friend Arlene and I made a recipe of her…
Dusty Folks Made in the Image of God
As I headed out the door from our Kroger grocery store in nearby Cookeville last Friday, I followed a young, muscular man, much shorter than most of the men I saw in Kroger that day — even shorter than I.…
Each Child a Winner
Athletics was never my strong suit. The only award I ever got for anything athletic was at an end-of-school field day when I was in elementary school. Somehow I managed to win second or third place in the high jump. The…