OK.....Now that we wanted to adopt we were trying to figure out the best way for us. Let me tell you how the Lord deals with Matt and I alot. We have never had much money so usually whatever we can afford, that is an easy answer for us. We had $1,000 in our account saved for adoption. We had used the rest on infertility Dr.'s. Matt and I had some...alot of college debt and we felt really strongly that we could not go into anymore debt adopting. We went to a Chrisitan agency and after leaving, we knew that it would be too much money. The more people we talked to that had adopted, there was a name that kept coming up. Attorney Tim Blied. I think at that time, EVERYBODY that we knew that had adopted had used Tim in some form. We were going to wait and save a little more money, but we decided to meet with him and while we were waiting on a baby save the money we needed.
His office is in Fullerton, so we drove late after work one night to meet with him. Let me just say that we LOVE US SOME TIME BLIED.! We left his office so encouraged. He took so much time with us to make sure we understood everything he was talking about. He is a wonderful Christian man who had the same views on adopting, infertility, birthmoms,etc. as us. He is just one of the many people God used to change our hearts in different areas. We started the process with him right away because we had so much to do. One thing he said was to write and tell everyone we knew that we were adopting....He said that you never know how God will use that to bring a baby to us. So...we wrote kind of like a Christmas newsletter telling about what we were up to and that we were adopting. Who knew that that letter would be used in a chain of events to bring us Ivy Elliott!
His office is in Fullerton, so we drove late after work one night to meet with him. Let me just say that we LOVE US SOME TIME BLIED.! We left his office so encouraged. He took so much time with us to make sure we understood everything he was talking about. He is a wonderful Christian man who had the same views on adopting, infertility, birthmoms,etc. as us. He is just one of the many people God used to change our hearts in different areas. We started the process with him right away because we had so much to do. One thing he said was to write and tell everyone we knew that we were adopting....He said that you never know how God will use that to bring a baby to us. So...we wrote kind of like a Christmas newsletter telling about what we were up to and that we were adopting. Who knew that that letter would be used in a chain of events to bring us Ivy Elliott!
2 comments:
Even though I know the outcome of the story, I have chills!!
Kelli, you are such a sweet friend and love you so much! By the way, I still remember when you called me about Kirk and how excited you were...you were talking SO fast! :) Love you guys!
Melisa Brooke
Every day when i read the next part of the story i end up in tears! I remember those times and the end of the story is the best! Keep going girl.....love it!
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