Gaining Insight in Austin

For my work I was flown down to Austin, Texas.

I really had no idea what to expect. Austin is Arkansas's Little Rock and Washington's Seattle...but still very different. I love Austin.

This weekend I spent with young priests (WHICH WAS AWESOME!) and they took me out and we ate and hung out and I'm going to be honest...I've never felt more normal then when I was sitting there drinking with a priest, a teacher, and a sports fan.

I havent felt so, gawh I dont know how to say this...I felt like all these things that are weighing down on me were lifted if only momentarily. I got to have Austin just to myself, not to all the other things that I constantly think about.

I am going to selfishly claim Austin! It is MINE! haha Finding God in Texas...what a hoot.

For the past few days before coming to Austin I have been so incredibly critical of my body. This morning I looked in the mirror and laughed, yeah I'm curvy now. haha how cool is that. No added comment! no ugh I'm curvy which means I'm fat! ugh no little girls or boys body UGH....there was none of that! NONE OF IT!

I dont know what any of it means, but I'm not going to try to figure it out. I'm just taking it now and relishing in it.

I felt like a woman and I liked it. It was beautiful.

Thank you God for my life, for my woman's body, for friends, and for Austin!