Welcome

[syf]

(image via weheartit.com)

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

Re: more big seestturrss?? SPLEE!

[young_laugher]

Tomi, welcome and more welcomes! I feel just as though we're scooting our sleeping bags over to make room for yours in our cozy circle. The way you describe the odd up-and-down, backwards-and-forwards arc of learning to know God and His ways is JUST RIGHT. Thank God it is His patience and continual, faithful work on our behalf that holds us to the course, not our own ephemeral natures, right?

Your paradoxical "I'm scared of sex because of how crazily intimate it is to let Someone get that close" and "I think it'll be crazily fun, too" thoughts sound quite similar to my own, during single years. And if I may, I think the wariness about sex and the nervous/anxious fears surrounding it start to fade once the "someone" becomes an actual, known, and loved man-friend whose voice and face are familiar comforts to you. It is the familiarity, the safety of friendship upon which good marriages are built, that at last defeats sex-fears and exalts sex-joys to the heights they can attain. Of course the thought is intimidating in the abstract---but thank God, He designed it ONLY for the particular, for the home-like, for the well-beloved and already-intimate...