Daily Encouragement

for Homeschooling Mothers with Charlene Notgrass

Worth a Million Dollars

I once met a woman who worked as a social worker. She was also a strong believer in Jesus. She told me something she learned while in seminary. She said that Satan tries to break up families because family is the place where we get so much of what we need as human beings. Over the years I have ... View Post

“I Love Your Mother”

When I was a girl, I often heard comedians on television. Television was more wholesome then, but we still heard things we shouldn't and there were certainly better ways to use our time. A common joke theme was mothers-in-law. Those jokes weren't funny. A few months ago I heard a sweet homeschooling ... View Post

Time for Godly Examples

Every fall I walk by the tall asters planted by our driveway and remember the day Delia Leddy dug a wild clump of them from a field beside her house and gave them to me. Delia was the sweet mother of a dear friend. Though she has long been gone from the earth her faithfulness and servant heart is an ... View Post

Her Teaching Still Talks to Him

My daddy's first cousin, Kenneth Wayne Head, is faithful to email several of us cousins. He keeps us up on the family news of the descendants of my great-grandparents, Jim and Cora Head. I showed you this photograph of Mama Head back in July. That's Mama Head on the right with my Daddy as a baby and ... View Post

A Hero

Ray and I had an encouraging conversation with a single dad yesterday afternoon. He's fed up. COVID-induced online learning through his local public school isn't working for his six-year-old boy. His little boy doesn't want to sit at a computer from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. doing live online school ... View Post