In thinking about what I wanted to communicate in this blog, I thought of many words: pilgrimage, way of suffering, perseverance, wilderness. However, though these words may describe many experiences of my life, these are not the words that I want to define my life. Mulling over what I want my life to represent, I thought of the foreign film, Life is Beautiful. Though this film is filled with suffering, the man wants to communicate to his son the wonder and beauty of life. I believe this brings glory to God. That is what I want from my life—to see the beauty in the midst of the suffering, to reflect the beauty of God. So the name of my blog is “beautiful life.”