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.
A Word That Is Hard to Say
Some words are just hard to say: amidst, insists, isthmus, Worcestshire. There is one word that used to be very easy to say when we were toddlers, but can be hard to say when we are all grown up. That word is no.…
Help Me Live Right
Ray and I have enjoyed being folks filling out visitor cards at church this spring while we have traveled to one homeschool convention after another, but we didn’t need to fill out a card yesterday. We visited a church in Richmond whose…
Just, Kind, and Humble
Several years ago when we came to Richmond, Virginia, for the HEAV convention, we visited the Federal Reserve Bank here and spent some time in their visitor center, after which they gave us a little bag of shredded money. That’s…
Give Me Liberty . . .
Ray and I are in Richmond with Connor for the Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) convention. We drove up Tuesday so we could visit with Ray’s nephew Chris, the ringbearer in our wedding, and his family on Tuesday night. This morning is set-up…
Religious, Secular, or Neutral
This past Sunday morning I had a rare opportunity to join a small ladies Bible class. I have visited this class once or twice before and been impressed with hearts who long to please God. A question discussed on Sunday morning was the definition of…
“Sticks and stones can break my bones . . .” or Heart Guard: It’s Not Just for Puppies
When our children were living at home and we had puppies living among us, we used to use a preventive medicine called Heartgard®. It’s pretty easy to coax a puppy to ingest his Heartgard®. Heart-guarding our own hearts and those of our children…