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.
Teaching Respect for Others
Several years ago Ray and I went to see Riders in the Sky at a most unusual location — in a cave (Riders in the Sky is the cowboy band that did “Woody’s Roundup” for Toy Story 2). Most of the…
Joy in Heaven
When someone tells me that she reads Daily Encouragement, I feel great joy and humble gratitude. It means much that women give precious time listening to my heart. One of the sweetest of these moments came when I learned that my friend Joy Brown age…
Basic Blessings
Our county has produced a poet laureate of Tennessee, a federal judge, numerous professionals, and some of the most responsible and godly people I have ever known. However, we also have people living in extreme poverty, people for whom poverty…
Homeschooling in the Backyard
Yesterday morning Ray came to get me in the office so I could see the rafter of turkeys out the kitchen window. Of course, I grabbed my camera. I counted two adults and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight…
Simultaneously?
Ray recently decided that he wanted to go back to using his smaller laptop screen instead of the larger extra screen he had been using. In that unused screen, I saw more efficient work for me and asked if I could use…
Every Time
As I was standing at a cash register last week, I saw a flyer advertising an upcoming health seminar. At the top in a cutesy font were these words: I like to think of that idea in a more positive…