by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 22, 2010 | Adventure, Children, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
I dropped off my daughter at the airport on Thursday as she returns to Germany, and it was sad and it was hard and it was life and it was beauty seeing the way she adores her brothers and she is deliberate about reaching out to them and I love the way she is kind and...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 22, 2010 | Community Service, Culture, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Refugees
My daughter and I were looking forward to a nice lunch at the Red and Black, a vegan cafe in southeast Portland, two days before she was to return to school in Germany. Having a vegetarian daughter makes for great eating adventures. I had heard about the southeast...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 4, 2010 | Culture, Faith, Live the Questions, Rolling Hills Writing & Culture Connection
This month’s Rolling Hills Writers Connection meeting, Thursday May 20, at 7 p.m. in the East Atrium features Guest Speaker Matt Mikalatos, a recent Western Seminary graduate, Campus Crusade for Christ missionary, and author of the just-released book, Imaginary...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 29, 2010 | Children, Faith, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting
So my 7 year old says to me last night, as he sees my on-going bumpy rash on my hands, “Mom, did the devil make your hands hurt?” I looked at him a bit confused and my husband said, “Cornelia, he’s asking you a question.” And he asked it again, then explained his...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 21, 2010 | Children, Church, Faith, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Writing
I was at church and my kids wanted to join me for the “big church” service rather than go to their individual classes, which I love. I so enjoy having my kids in church with me. Church can feel so segregated sometimes, grade school kids here, middle school in another...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 23, 2010 | Children, Church, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Moms, Parenting, Refugees
I am not the state. I am not a foster care home. I am a mom. So many thoughts surround having a 15-year-old injured boy that is not my son live in our home for a while. Originally, we took him in to live with our family in order to keep him safe and to make sure he...
