Our Story
Hi I’m
Katie and I am married to Matt. Matt and I met in 2004. I was
working at a local doctor’s office while in college and Matt was working at a
different medical group. The hospital provided a Christmas luncheon and we were
both there. Matt was the only guy in the entire room! I immediately
saw him and apparently he was scoping me out at the same time. I wanted
to find out who he was! Then one day while working, I got a phone call.
Guess who it was…….. the cute guy from the luncheon (I didn’t even know his
name). I couldn’t believe it and he wanted to go to lunch with ME.
That was all it took~ he was handsome, a gentleman, etc. Little did I
know on the first date that he was everything that I had prayed for! We
got married in 2008. Everything seemed to be perfect. I had a
husband that I loved, a house to call home (and boy did I have fun flipping the
bachelor padJ ) a job that I enjoyed… Life was good. Well as time went
on, it was time… you know the time when you feel that it is right to move onto
the next season of life. Matt and I decided that lots of our friends had
or were starting to have children and we wanted a child too. Then lots of
time passed, lots of friends got pregnant, and nothing with us. I wasn’t
worried though…after all I just knew I was meant to be a wife and mother.
That was a dream of mine since I was little. Well more time came and went
and then I started to wonder “what is wrong”. After two long years we
were left with the idea that maybe we wouldn’t be able to have biological
children. This was certainly not how I had my life planned nor was it the
outcome Matt had expected either. It came to the point that I just wanted
to know, not wonder but know because my patience was growing thin. Well,
in June 2012 it was reality, we wouldn’t have biological children (unless God
changes his mind…you know miracles can happenJ). WOW…… this was the first
thing that Matt and I had to face that wasn’t at all what we had planned.
I remember my heart being broken and all we could do was turn to God. It
was out of our control. I wrote in my journal that day, “I know you (God) have
great plans for me and Matt. I know you are up to something. I pray
that we will be obedient because I know when God’s children are obedient there
is always a blessing”. I was in the midst of a wonderful bible study,
Discerning the Voice of God. Priscilla Shirer encouraged us to
write down two things in the front of our workbook that we would be praying for
and listening for God to speak. Of course one of the things I wrote down
was baby. I immediately began praying to hear God’s voice. Later on
in July (the 5th to be exact) Matt and I decided to read Ephesians
together. This is one of my favorite books of the bible. That night
we read the first chapter in Ephesians. It said, “Long ago even before he
made the world, his unchanging plan has always been to ADOPT us into
his own family…. Ephesians 1:4-5). I felt as though the word adopt jumped
off the page. We prayed that night that God would let us know if this was
HIS plan. From then on, I felt like that word “ADOPT” kept showing up all
over. Every time I turned on the radio it seemed that they were talking
about how it was our job to take care of the orphans ~a commercial on adoption.
Then I turned on the TV and in big letters the word A-D-O-P-T came across the
screen (granted it was for a dog commercial encouraging the adoption of
abandoned pets:L), but I did not care. I felt that God was speaking to me.
I continued to pray. Then the very next day, as I was in the midst of my
own quiet time, I just happened to read Romans 8:15 “You should behave
instead like God’s very own children, ADOPTED into his family calling him
father dear father.” Then I felt like this was the direction that God
was leading us towards. I got in touch with a friend who had gone through
adoption and met up with her just to talk. After that, Matt and I decided
to attend an information session on adoption. We continued to pray,
“Lord, if this is not your plan, please speak to us”. One thing led to
another and we found ourselves in mounds of paperwork. We were working
through all the paper work portion of our adoption journey. Boy was it a
lot of busy paperwork….doctor’s visits, background checks, Amos’ (our Great
Dane) records from the vet, the list went on and on. Well at the first of
the year (2013) we were facing our first home visit. We were nervous.
It went well. Next we had separate interviews. Then we were down to
one last home visit. After it was completed, we waited to hear about the
final approval. On April 1st… it was official, we are APPROVED
and waiting. All this time we had been waiting to wait. We were
excited. So here we are, waiting. I can honestly say, that during
this wilderness time in our lives God has shown up and truly made himself known.
I think that had we not hit this stumbling block in our lives, we would never
have come to know Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords on the level that we know him now.
It is my prayer that we never go back to living life with the idea that we have
everything under control. Each day, I have prayed for God’s help along
the journey. While the wilderness is not easy, it is so easy to see God
at work. I am so thankful that he loves me and cares about each step of
my journey in life. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us.
While I hope we do not have to wait too long before being chosen, it is my
prayer that we spend this time focusing on God and his goodness. I want
to know him more and more each day. The title of our blog is appropriate
because the God that we have grown up hearing of…. Now we can see (Job 42:5).
We are so thankful that we serve a God who is alive and active in our lives. So
we are living life with our eyes wide open anticipating all that God has in
store for us. We are glad that you are joining us on this journey.
We know we will be able to look back and see God’s perfect plan at work in his
perfect timing.
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