So when his wife, Christie, suggested they adopt twin girls who had lived in separate homes since they were infants, he let her have it.
“I said, ‘No babe, don't even go there.'
“I said, ‘Look, do you remember I'm in D.C. all the time now, do you remember that you're raising three kids by yourself, do you remember you just recently had to pull your first calf? You remember you're taking care of the farm now? Do you remember how much more responsibilities you have with the business now? Do you remember all these different responsibilities?'”
He would write a check, he said, since “it's easier sometimes to give money than it is to give time.”
When she tried again soon after, he gave the speech again, but she played what Mullin called her trump card.
“Would you pray about it?” she asked him.
“How do you pray about that?” Mullin asked the people who attended his town hall meeting in Henryetta a week ago. “I mean, really.
“‘Hey Lord, would you please, please make her heart as selfish as mine?'
“No. You pray, ‘God, change me. Change my heart' ... And man did He ever.”
On Aug. 21, a judge approved the adoption of Ivy and Lynette Mullin, who are now 2, “and man, what a great day it was,” Mullin said.
This guy not only has balls of steel for doing this, he married himself a wife of steel as well.
The best of luck to them.
There are such good people in this world. Nice to finally hear about one of them!
ReplyDeleteThey are out there, and I'd venture to say that although most people would be hard pressed to do something like this, the majority are right thinking, hard working folks, moral people.
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