New children’s book weaves its way into readers’ hearts
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It is “A Single Red Thread” that ties young Chineseorphan Qu Yi to those she is to meet in the new children’sbook by Rossville resident Lorraine Butler Simcox.
Award winner Lin Wang illustrated the project that shares the storyof young orphan as she leaves her native land.
Simcox herself began the book from a letter she had written tofriends after she herself adopted her daughter Lillian from China,she said.
She said she learned early in life she could not have childrendespite that the desire was central in her emotions. She eventuallytook the step as a single woman of adopting her daughter Lillian,according to her Web site.
She shared the joy of the experience with her friends throughwritten a letter and tucked it away, but those words would laterinspire her to pursue another life-long dream.
Simcox said she hit a point in her life where she went throughtremendous soul searching about the direction God had in store forher.
After 20 years of teaching in Palm Beach County, Fla., she left herposition, moved from Florida to Grayson, Ga. near Atlanta, and thenopened her heart to seek what God would bring in her life.
“I knew that God had something more to me to do,” shesaid.
After two weeks of being still, the direction was clearer, sheexplained: she was moving to the North Georgia mountains and wasgoing to write a book. Within just a couple of weeks, she met hereventual husband Rex, and all the pieces began falling into place. On the Web: asingleredthread.com
She ran across that fateful letter again and decided to submit itto a publisher. After receiving a critique of its length, sherefined the story, resubmitted it, and the revision is now makingits way to stores across America.
A deeper meaning
“Initially I wrote the book to entertain children,”Simcox said.
But there was a deeper meaning to the story. She discovered thebook will allow her to share a much more significant calling forher life by bringing people’s attention to the needs of 143million children who are orphaned in China, she said.
“I felt the burden in my heart about the orphans,” shesaid. “We’ve got to do something about this. I ambecoming a voice for these children through the book. Imagine howmany other people could be blessed and how many other childrencould be blessed.”
Simcox said she is speaking to groups and schools and working tobring together the Lil-Yi’s Hope, a foundation that will helpbreak down the financial barriers to parents wishing to pursueChinese adoption, and work to increase interest in providing aid tothe orphans who remain.
“I feel like the Lord is putting me in this position,”she said. “I am raising adoption awareness. I talk to a lotof people about adoption. You can be standing in grocery line andin a couple of minutes you are talking about adoption.”
Simcox said the recent Chinese earthquakes destroyed 7,000 schoolsand caused 5,000 children to lose their parents.
“Not all can be adopted, but we can all certainly dosomething to help them,” she said.
She is working to partner with other existing aid organizations.
The book, which will help fund Lil-Yi’s Hope foundation, is24-page hard cover book with a dust cover, and it can include aread-along CD. Prices vary, depending on whether books come with orwithout the CD, but range from $16.95-$19.95. For more information,visit asingleredthread.com.
“The exciting thing is to be a voice for thesechildren,” she said.
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It is “A Single Red Thread” that ties young Chineseorphan Qu Yi to those she is to meet in the new children’sbook by Rossville resident Lorraine Butler Simcox.
Award winner Lin Wang illustrated the project that shares the storyof young orphan as she leaves her native land.
Simcox herself began the book from a letter she had written tofriends after she herself adopted her daughter Lillian from China,she said.
She said she learned early in life she could not have childrendespite that the desire was central in her emotions. She eventuallytook the step as a single woman of adopting her daughter Lillian,according to her Web site.
She shared the joy of the experience with her friends throughwritten a letter and tucked it away, but those words would laterinspire her to pursue another life-long dream.
Simcox said she hit a point in her life where she went throughtremendous soul searching about the direction God had in store forher.
After 20 years of teaching in Palm Beach County, Fla., she left herposition, moved from Florida to Grayson, Ga. near Atlanta, and thenopened her heart to seek what God would bring in her life.
“I knew that God had something more to me to do,” shesaid.
After two weeks of being still, the direction was clearer, sheexplained: she was moving to the North Georgia mountains and wasgoing to write a book. Within just a couple of weeks, she met hereventual husband Rex, and all the pieces began falling into place. On the Web: asingleredthread.com
She ran across that fateful letter again and decided to submit itto a publisher. After receiving a critique of its length, sherefined the story, resubmitted it, and the revision is now makingits way to stores across America.
A deeper meaning
“Initially I wrote the book to entertain children,”Simcox said.
But there was a deeper meaning to the story. She discovered thebook will allow her to share a much more significant calling forher life by bringing people’s attention to the needs of 143million children who are orphaned in China, she said.
“I felt the burden in my heart about the orphans,” shesaid. “We’ve got to do something about this. I ambecoming a voice for these children through the book. Imagine howmany other people could be blessed and how many other childrencould be blessed.”
Simcox said she is speaking to groups and schools and working tobring together the Lil-Yi’s Hope, a foundation that will helpbreak down the financial barriers to parents wishing to pursueChinese adoption, and work to increase interest in providing aid tothe orphans who remain.
“I feel like the Lord is putting me in this position,”she said. “I am raising adoption awareness. I talk to a lotof people about adoption. You can be standing in grocery line andin a couple of minutes you are talking about adoption.”
Simcox said the recent Chinese earthquakes destroyed 7,000 schoolsand caused 5,000 children to lose their parents.
“Not all can be adopted, but we can all certainly dosomething to help them,” she said.
She is working to partner with other existing aid organizations.
The book, which will help fund Lil-Yi’s Hope foundation, is24-page hard cover book with a dust cover, and it can include aread-along CD. Prices vary, depending on whether books come with orwithout the CD, but range from $16.95-$19.95. For more information,visit asingleredthread.com.
“The exciting thing is to be a voice for thesechildren,” she said.
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