Be The Crazy One

April 12, 2016 Linny Saunders26 Comments

A few weeks back I stumbled upon a beautiful flower bed. Well if you’ve been hanging around here for any amount of time, you know how I love flowers. In fact I’m a sucker for them. I oooh and aahh at just about any flower I come upon. My family would tell you I’m addicted….

Naomi’s Been Found

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 Linny Saunders14 Comments

The Lord does the most amazing things and some days it is completely mind-boggling to imagine how He does it!! On Leap Year day, I shared some thoughts as I was heading to get our little Pearl. As I was finishing up the post, I wrote this: Many years ago, probably almost 50, when I…

Let’s GOOOOO!

April 4, 2016 Linny SaundersLeave a comment

June is coming and so is another International Voice of the Orphan GO Team trip to serve!! There are a few places still open on the team and we would love YOU to be a part. This team will be serving at The Gem Foundation in a variety of ways. They will also be helping to…

There He Goes…Answering – Again!

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 Linny Saunders18 Comments

In China, after Vernon told me through the translator app that he had dreamed of people jumping up and down at the airport I began to pray that the airport crowd would fill his heart with joy, making his dreams come true. I mean. How could we not want this guy of ours heart filled…

Vernon’s True “Special Need”

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 Linny Saunders13 Comments

I know you’ve heard me say it before, but it’s true. The only true Special Need any orphan has is the need of a family. Everything else can be figured out like wheelchair ramps, handicap accessible everything and yes, sometimes it takes time to figure it out, but God always provide!! Crazy as it sounds,…

That One Day

March 25, 2016March 25, 2016 Linny Saunders5 Comments

This is a bit of my story. Almost 53 years ago, if you’d known me up close and been a fly on my bedroom wall, you would have said that I was a very broken, distraught, extremely fearful little girl. Although just a wee thing chronologically, my life was already very, very complicated. I cried…

Oh the Joy We’d Be Missing

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 Linny Saunders18 Comments

I’ve often wondered what it would be like if Ruby was healed. Or Jubilee. And now if Pearl was healed. Obviously there would be tremendous joy, however, if they were healed, they wouldn’t be Ruby, Jubilee or a Pearl – and it’s kinda crazy, but it feels like we would miss them so much!! Ya’…

The First Week

March 19, 2016March 19, 2016 Linny Saunders5 Comments

Well we’ve done a ton of dancing this week, slowly, slowly, slowly. We hadn’t gone anywhere except the park and church until yesterday when we were able to go to a Prayer Rally downtown and join 6,700 other Christians praying for our nation. It was amazing and like a friend of mine, I couldn’t see…

The Dance

March 14, 2016March 15, 2016 Linny Saunders20 Comments

So we’re home. The flights were good. At one point I was pushing Vernon one-handed who had his backpack full of books in his wheelchair while I precariously balanced his walker on one side of it, pulling with my other hand the loaded-with-documents-wheeling suitcase which had two duffel bags on top, and a diaper bag…

Heading Home!

March 10, 2016March 11, 2016 Linny Saunders14 Comments

I promised one last post from China…how could I resist sharing the cuteness knowing you won’t see any for over 30 hours? If you are really anxious to see pictures of them and struggling through the 30 hours, I’m pretty sure ice cream will help. I found our Pearly Bonnie playing with her baby yesterday….

Linny Lee Saunders

Place Called Simplicity