Daily Encouragement

for Homeschooling Mothers with Charlene Notgrass

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

Happy Labor Day, 2020

Every day is a day to be grateful. Today is an especially good day to be grateful for work -- the work others do to benefit us and the work God gives us to do, for example: Loved ones to serve. Agricultural workers who grow our food. Business owners who provide jobs. Officials who do their jobs ... View Post

A Homeschool Dad and a Hero

Not long after yesterday's post went out by email, I received a sweet response from a proud wife. She wrote: My husband has been in fire services since he was old enough to hang onto the back of the truck when he was a boy and went with his dad on volunteer calls. She went on to tell me ... View Post