[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Marion Thompson]

Congratulations on your stellar progress, Kristin.  A good self-image is 
a big part of the picture and many of us admire your determination.  
Just keep plugging away at the fears and stresses -- you are doing so 
well.  I really am lost in admiration in how you are getting on in your 
new life.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/13/2015 2:32 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> If I could be added to the prayer list, please…
>
> Life has been rough the past month or so. I did not once get to church
> in February, partly because of the weather, partly because of other
> reasons.
>
> There is nothing big that is wrong, but all sorts of little keeps piling
> up and grabbing me. I hope that the passing of the wintry weather will
> help, but there is a whole lot of pushing through fears required and
> that gets tiring.
>
> But I am still pushing on. I made it to church on Sunday morning for the
> first time in over a month. Even risked going to my parish from 2009-10
> for the first time on a Sunday morning as Kristin. (I had played the
> organ for one funeral as Kristin, but mostly stayed up in the organ loft
> that day.) And I have been making it fairly regularly to the Y to use
> the treadmill and yesterday crossed the line where my BMI (for what it
> is worth) no longer calls me obese but merely overweight. About ten and
> a half months of work to get this far. The next time the scale goes down
> by a fraction of a pound, I will reach 85 pounds lost. The pants I
> bought because the ones I had been wearing were too loose are themselves
> getting to the point where I dare not wear them if my hands will be
> full. And while I am not there yet, this week was the first time I
> really started pushing myself to answer "what is the end goal." I have a
> number in mind. It isn't so much "that is the number I want to be," but
> it is probably in the ballpark. But even if I did not lose another
> pound, what I have done so far is an accomplishment. And I am far
> happier with how much of me there is today than I was when I started…
> mostly in ways that I did not realize until making the changes in my
> life (mostly just wearing a Fitbit and really working to get an hour of
> walking in pretty close to daily, weather permitting, and paying
> attention to the calories I was eating and making better choices around
> food).
>
> So there are plenty of good things to celebrate, but that doesn't always
> temper the stresses and fears of life.
>
> Kristin
>