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 Peacekeeping Scar
I grew up in a big old house across the street from our church, in sight of my school, and behind my grandfather’s grocery store. On the back of the house was a screened-in porch where Mother did our laundry on a…
Lessons from a Trolley and a Pigeon
Our daughter Mary Evelyn and her family and our administrative assistant Michelle took the company van to the Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania convention this past weekend, so Ray and I are traveling home from the Texas convention in a…
The Little Rock Nine, Part 2
As Ray and I continued our tour of the Little Rock Central High School Historic Site on Wednesday, our tour guide told us to cross the street to the corner where the high school stands. There she resumed her story. When the…
The Little Rock Nine, Part 1
I was three years old in 1957, when nine brave African American children volunteered to be the first African Americans to attend Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed,…
Small Things
Ray and I got to be home for six days (!) before setting out yesterday morning to drive west to the Texas Home School Coalition convention in Arlington. The day was beautiful. The scenery was, too. Ray treated me to a few…
A Love Story
John and Abigail Adams spent many years apart while he served his country. While her husband was away in Philadelphia at the Second Continental Congress, Abigail and her son John Quincy watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from near their home.…