Patience

4 years in the making and something is being built! I'm beginning to see a pattern in my life. I'm a planner and like to know things ahead of time so I can plan for all scenarios and situations, hoping that perfection takes place. So what happens? God wants me to learn more than planning! I already know how to plan, but do I know how to wait in faith?

From issuing the Request for Proposals to interviewing developers to selecting the winning team to drafting the agreements to obtaining planning approvals to watching plans develop to construction. There are a lot of people who works with projects that take years to see fruition, but I'm really learning to wait in years instead of months and days. I'm blessed though. Some people may never see their work reach an end and sometimes, we don't know if there is one, but if we still possess hope, we can wait patiently while learning a few lessons along the way.

That is, waiting patiently in faith.

First Blog!

I joined Blogger today after having visited several others' blogger sites over the past few months - wondering what makes this better than all of the other pages out there? I gotta try it out to see for myself!

So here I am, putting out my first entry and trying to say something intelligent --- hmm, now what's next??

The title - I named this blog of mine "Because He First Loved Me" for a reason. I can name this Esther's Journal or Esther's Thought of the Day or something really creative...but when I look at myself, all I can say is that I'm a result of God's blessing on me. It's because He first loved me, that's why I'm blessed. It's because He first loved me that I can experience true joy, possess a peace that surpasses all understanding, and learn to love others the way He's loved me.

I hope that I can pass on a little bit of hope, a little bit of faith, and a little bit of love in this blog to those who read it.

God is good.