Welcome

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Hello and welcome to "To the Hilltops!" We're so glad that you are joining us and choosing to share in this journey toward an ethics of Christian womanhood.

Please view this post as an invitation to a comfortable seat beside a cozy fireplace. Come in, kick up your feet, grab yourself a cup of tea, and introduce yourself to everyone.  Who are you?  What brings you here?  How do you see the need for a community like this one in your life right now?

Excitedly,
the mods (Kay, Sharon, and Tamara)

Comments

Salutations, introductions, greetings, hey there.

[young_laugher]

So, apparently I'm a mod. I'm inclined to think this is a promotion in life, and I'm secretly vowing to sew a cape for the position.

I'm Kay, and chances are I know a good slice of you ladies in actual life, but others of you will be new. Now is my chance to assume an intimidating manner; the Internet is my only hope for intimidation tactics, since my actual face and general aspect tend to make people go Awww like they do around declawed kittens.

Sharon nudged me with her idea ("Hey, what do you think about a blog for quality Christian talk about sexuality?") and I clobbered her with eagerness. Chiefly this eagerness stems from two sources: 1) A sincere passion for more forthright discussion in the Church of such an influential aspect of human life, and 2) A personal history (and present) of health and joy in sexuality. In other words, I have a lot to say and no compunction about saying it.

I hear from so many young women and men that they grew up to a deafening silence about all things sexual within the Church. Exceptions exist (thank God). But overall, a topic that can't comfortably be broached in the Sunday pulpit falls by the wayside when it comes time to arrange the "older women instructing the younger" a la the epistles. We women can begin changing that among ourselves, here, just a little bit, even if none of us really qualify as "older." My guess is, we can get pretty far just reaching out a hand to one another where we're at today.

Where I'm at today---married. (Rather enamoured of marriage to this particular man.) It's been only three years, and so I still have sharp and near memories of singlehood, working and waiting, unrequited love, then engagement. Parenthood as yet remains a shrouded mystery. I'll keep you updated.

The only other things you ought to know about me, at least on initial introduction, are these:

1. I am of the stubbornly optimistic persuasion. One friend, when we were both teenagers, dubbed me Kay, Keeper of the Joy in All Things. I glory in this title.

2. Quotes tend to come out my ears, I love them so; and most of them wind up being C. S. Lewis.

So, hello; let me hear who you are!

Kay

Re: Salutations, introductions, greetings, hey there.

[trackers]

Will you be using sequins on your cape? :)

Re: Salutations, introductions, greetings, hey there.

[young_laugher]

Oh, naturally! But only in a tasteful leaf-and-vine pattern along the bottom hem.

Re: Salutations, introductions, greetings, hey there.

[trackers]

I would expect nothing less. :)