Daily Encouragement

for Homeschooling Mothers with Charlene Notgrass

The Light of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth

My mother continues to watch episode after episode of Andy Griffith every evening. Ray and I often sit down for one episode and we continue to memorize them simply by osmosis! Mother recently watched an episode in which two unscrupulous men tried to dupe Opie and his friends. Barney was convinced ... View Post

Calm in the Storm

I'm enjoying the rains we have had this week. Two nights in a row we had pretty ferocious storms. I felt a little anxious during one of them, just as I have felt anxious many times in those times of life we describe as storms. That's when we need to remember words like this chorus from Vernon J. ... View Post

Unity

Ray got a letter this week from a friend whom he deeply respects. I love this knowledgeable, well-read, highly-educated man's long-view perspective. He lamented briefly about comments by some in government and the media and the disquieting views they hold. He said that their comments reveal their ... View Post

Justice

The U.S. Department of Justice Building (now called the Robert F. Kennedy Building) was completed in 1935. Eighteen paintings by Canadian-American artist Broadmo0r Robinson decorate the stairway leading to the building's two-story Great Hall. One of those paintings depicts Jesus. Justice was ... View Post