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.
Yee Haw to You, Too, Mama!
Ray and I took off to Granville to hear bluegrass on Saturday night with our good friends Garth and Terry. The crowd was so big that we had to sit upstairs and peer over the balcony — one time when…
Fun or Fuddy-Duddy?
I’m glad I had parents who took me to my first popular music concert themselves when I was just ten years old. We heard a folk group on a calm and peaceful afternoon at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. I’m…
More About Hearts and Husbands
Several days ago I thought about writing to you about Proverbs 31. When I glanced through the verses one day in preparation, the one I used yesterday caught my attention. The heart of her husband trusts in her. Proverbs 31:11 One of the…
Clearing Up Relationships
Ray has a high school friend who emails occasionally to share news and to check up on us. Because this high school friend is not one of the guys, but one of the girls, he forwards them to me. One…
Children Who Don’t Like to Read
Back in 1994, when we finally figured out what kind of homeschooling family we really wanted to be and when we adopted our main goal . . . That we, our children and their spouses, our grandchildren and their spouses, and…
From This Day to Graduation
In the midst of the hills surrounding us here in Jackson County, we often hear echoes of the British Isles from whence we came in colloquial words and unique pronunciations. Most of the years since we have been here, locals…