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.
All Dressed Up, Part 2
Do you remember when Mary Poppins first arrives at the Banks home and she gets the children dressed for an outing? She says that they are not as well turned out as she would like. As I mentioned on Monday,…
Rejoicing and Weeping
Two weeks ago I shared a prayer request with you for a fellow Daily Encouragement reader who grew up in Canada. Her husband had been diagnosed with lung cancer this past December. Today she and her children are rejoicing in the…
All Dressed Up, Part 1
As I was growing up in little Ashland City, Tennessee, my family was far from well-0ff. We moved into a duplex with our first indoor plumbing when I was almost four. Sometime after that, Daddy bought our first car. We…
Powerful Mamas
Ray and I enjoy reading aloud to each other, especially in the car. We just began reading One Nation, by Dr. Ben Carson. Among his many suggestions to the American people in the first chapter, one was that we treat…
Story Time
Mother, Mary Evelyn, her children, and I went to a ladies’ lunch yesterday at the home of retired teacher who is part of our church. Our hostess lives on a hill in the country, where she has been creating pretty…
Wearing Moccasins
I don’t hear as much about walking in other people’s moccasins as I did as a little girl, but the idea is a good one. If we haven’t experienced what someone else has experienced (or walked in their moccasins or…