“Who do people say I am?” “Who do you say I am?” (Luke 9:18,20) – the unspoken questions in every child’s mind and heart. “You are my beloved child in whom I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:22) – the hoped for response in the mind and heart of every child. But a battle rages within…
By Jennifer Drummond “AS SUMMER DRAWS TO A CLOSE, we prepare for some obvious changes: shorter days, cooler temperatures, a significant drop in ice cream consumption. But another change takes place as well, something whose consequences most of us don’t ordinarily think about. Grown-ups return to work, where they’ll toil alongside other working-age people. Children…
The eager cry of a child’s “Pick me!” has the power to stir anxiety as well as anticipation in the hearts of young and old alike. The scene that unfolded on the green hills at Plumfield a few weeks ago was no exception. The boy wiggled, his little body in constant motion. “Pick me! Pick…
This text from Livy was the basis of a recent discussion by 5th & 6th graders at Plumfield: Now the sons of Ancus, since they had been grown to manhood, had taken it ill that Tarquin had been preferred before them to the throne of their father, and now they were the more angry, seeing…