Daily Encouragement

for Homeschooling Mothers with Charlene Notgrass

Olive Who Knows How to Match

Our friend Olive makes people feel precious. She makes me feel precious. She shares her heart with me and she listens to mine. I should slip her picture into my Bible at the opening: Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 Olive and I have done lots ... 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

Tailor Made

When I was growing up, many women made their own clothes and their children's clothes, especially their daughter's dresses. Mother not only made her clothes and mine, she also made dresses for many others in her home-based dressmaking business. Many would have described my mother as ... 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

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