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.
Praise God! Yippee! Woo-Hoo!
So many of you were praying with me when our grandson Henry was in the hospital in mid-July. Thank you so much. Rejoice with me today because he had a follow-up appointment with a hematologist yesterday. His numbers were great.…
We Had a Big Time
I love the Southern sayings I heard growing up. Here’s a fun example. When someone had been someplace special, such as a family reunion or the state fair or the Smoky Mountains for the weekend and a friend asked how…
The Perfect First Day of School
Pencils, spiral notebooks, crayons, three-prong folders in the colors of the rainbow — on sale now! It’s that time of year, time for back-to-school sales, tax-free weekends, and time to get in gear for the first day of school. Are…
If it’s not grass . . .
Our son John recently told Ray that he is trying to live up to a challenge given to him many years ago by Ray’s great-aunt, Aunt Clara. When I got to know Aunt Clara, she was in a nursing home.…
God at Work
In the late 1950s, our friend Larry was in the Air Force. Needing airmen to work on the island of Taiwan, the Air Force sent him to Yale to learn Chinese. In Taiwan he worshiped with American missionaries and Chinese…
Snowing Down South
A few years ago I walked into a lingerie department and asked for the location of the slips. I was flabbergasted when the sales lady told me that this department store didn’t sell them in the store anymore, but I…