Questions & Answers: Adoption & Foster Care Part 1

October 26, 2013 Linny Saunders10 Comments

I have had such a wonderful time with the questions that have come in for the Question and Answer series. Who would’ve guessed so many of you had so many questions? My prayer is that this will serve as a kind of mentoring, since that’s kind of what the Lord has turned our Place…

Check Her Out…

October 24, 2013 Linny Saunders36 Comments

Ruby girlfriend is up to it again… and our family is shoutin’ for joy! Remember? The little treasure who some said “would never do anything”… Ya’ that girl. While I was in Africa Dw and I were skyping and he couldn’t wait to tell me… He’d been lifting Ruby out of her car seat and…

You Can Call Her: The Ambassador

October 23, 2013 Linny Saunders14 Comments

Recently we were asked if Ruby would be able to serve as the Ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy of Arizona this year. I tear up and giggle at the same time. Who would have believed as Miss Ruby Grace lay emaciated, struggling and dying in an East African garden that Almighty God was working…

Abandonment – Part 2

October 15, 2013 Linny Saunders41 Comments

After the response to the post last month on abandonment, several wrote and asked for some help and also asked if we would share some of our life experiences. As always, this is our personal story. It’s okay if you don’t agree with how we choose to handle this life God has graciously granted us. It…

Nehemiah Did It!

October 2, 2013 Linny Saunders11 Comments

Dw called me the other day and asked if we could Skype. We had some of our Ugandan sons here for dinner, as well as, the team still here. I went into the other room to Skype… but Dw said, “No! Put the computer where everyone can hear.” So I took my laptop back to…

Abandonment

September 3, 2013 Linny Saunders41 Comments

Last night as I was tucking my treasures into bed, one asked a question that opened the door to a very long and very tender discussion about abandonment. It’s never an easy discussion, in fact it’s the one discussion I dread. As an adoptive mom, my heart wrenches about inside my chest. The most powerful…

Has it Really Been a Year, Mr. Nehemiah?

August 24, 2013 Linny Saunders26 Comments

There’s this crazy thing about how God works…. Ask almost anyone who has brought home a treasure through disruption and they will confirm this truth… The treasure that arrived broken, grieving, fearful, and often angry….. whose anxious eyes peered from an expressionless face… those pensive eyes, the terrified heart and the fearful face – they…

And then He said, “Now Watch This….”

August 9, 2013 Linny Saunders46 Comments

Some days I can start a post without any struggle, and then there are others. Like today. Where there are so many thoughts rumbling around my head and I have begun, back spaced, begun again, back spaced…and on and on. Ugh. There are certain topics that are just far too important to not articulate…

We Remember – 6 Years Later

August 5, 2013November 19, 2015 Linny Saunders28 Comments

Six years ago today we were on the adventure of a lifetime… and today we celebrate the joy of Forever Family…. Is there anything better than “Before” and “After” pictures? Knowing the face exudes the peace from knowing, “I belong. Someone wanted me. I am part of a family. Forever. Orphan…

Could We Please Help Linny?

July 31, 2013 Linny Saunders7 Comments

What happens when a little one after being matched with a family, suffers a traumatic brain injury in her foster home while waiting for them to come? Please meet “Linny”. {named by RR who has also been advocating for her} After learning of “Linny’s” Traumatic Brain Injury in her foster home in Ch*na, the former…

Linny Lee Saunders

Place Called Simplicity

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