Perhaps I like grandparents because before too long I will join your ranks. On the other hand, perhaps I like grandparents because of my own fond memories of fishing the cold deep lakes of northern Washington State with Grandpa Julian, or swinging onto the combine with Grandpa Jesse during the annual wheat harvest. Perhaps it is because I can still feel the deep sorrow as I wept by the coffin of Grandma Marion, who loved me always, or of sitting with Grandma Pauline as she turned 100 years old a couple weeks before her passing. She did not remember me at that moment, but when she learned I was living in Texas, she remembered stories of her grandfather’s homestead in Pilot Point. 

Recently, a mother told me that she knew Coram Deo Academy was in God's providence; she believed that students, families and staff here are blessed, maybe even with a special calling. It is true that we have been blessed as we have collaborated with you to train students in a Christian worldview through a vigorous classical curriculum. As I considered her thoughts, I began to reflect over what has now been a decade of commitment to CDA: a commitment to see wise thinking and ethical leadership realized in our children; a burning desire to see the differences our graduates could make in their surroundings. What would truly happen as these CDA Lions were loosed? Would they transform their campuses, their communities? Have we truly been a resource aiding their families in an effort to help shape and mold their learning experience so that they were equipped and ready to stand firm and apart? To read the whole letter click here.