And so it begins...

About a year ago, I started a blog as a class project. Prior to starting this blog, I have to say that I was really against the whole idea. I mean, who really wants to sit down and read what I think? Blogging, to me, seemed like a forum for tech junkies to share their HTML code and talk about video games that no one really understands. After my class project, I was never the same.

I love to write. I've ALWAYS loved to write. I wrote my first short story when I was in grade school. My mom loved it so much that she still has it in our filing cabinet at home. It was called "Marcella's Exciting Day" and it was about a little girl that took an outing with her grandmother. I'm not sure why my mother thought it was so great, but I'm flattered that she still has it. After that, I wrote to a publishing company when I was 11 years old and asked them what I needed to do to write a book. They told me to write back in 10 years.

Over the summer, my husband and I took a trip overseas to complete some mission work. It was a journey that changed my life, and is also the root of my URL. My Chinese name means "beautiful peace", and that is how "beautifully peaceful" was born. Because I couldn't use my cell phone overseas, I chronicled our journey to family back home through emails everyday. It was during that time that I was encouraged to start writing again. My youngest sister told me she felt like she was reading a book the entire time we were gone. I think that was my goal.

The original blog that I started for class is no more. Although I wrote a lot of thought provoking things, most of them were prompted for class, and not things you'd want to read. So, I'm starting over again. I hope that you'll join me for the ride.