Finally, a new waiting period... :)

"And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised." Hebrews 6:15

It's been almost 3 years of waiting, for me.  Nearly 3 years ago I began to feel a sudden urge in the pit of my stomach. A nudge of hope for the precious treasures all over the world with no family, that maybe one of them could be my child.
For about 18 months I waited for God to place that same hope in John.
For the next 6 months we waited for paperwork to be processed, fingerprints to be sent, more paperwork to be finalized.
For 11 months after that it was waiting for a referral, just waiting for a picture of a child that could possibly be mine.
For 3 weeks after that we waited for doctors phone calls, answers from China, more doctors phone calls.
Now, for about 6 months we wait for more paperwork to process and then we get to go get our little girl and bring her home!

THAT'S RIGHT, I SAID OUR LITTLE GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

She's perfect, and the Lord has done amazing things over the last period of waiting.  I can't wait to see what He does in the next waiting period!!

A couple of details...
 - She just turned 2 in May
 - As far as we know she's healthy ( a miracle in itself, a story for another time ).
We've sent in our LOI (Letter of Intent) and are waiting for a LOA (Letter of Acceptance) which could take months.  We have other paperwork to fill out and file in the meantime, which is why the continued wait.

So, we've gone from one stage of waiting to another stage.  I thought the last 18 months were hard, I'm pretty sure holding her picture and knowing her name and seeing her face and missing the next months of her life is going to near kill me!

Please pray, friends - that God will continue to hold our angel and love on her, that paperwork will move unusually quickly so that we can bring her home as quickly as possible, that we would follow the Lord's path for us and we would be particularly aware of His next steps for us, and above all else that everything we do and say in the next "waiting" time would only bring honor and glory to His name!
Thank you so much for your prayers thus far, we covet them more than you'll ever know!