The Hills Roll On

The beginning of “lasts” has begun. The last Spanish bill we’ll pay, the last 24-pack of TP we’ll buy, the last internship newsletter we’ll write. So on that note, here it is! click here for the Hills April Newsletter

April’s prayer requests have been added as well…muchas gracias!

I would never have known that THIS would be the next installement. He never ceases to AMAZE me.

I’ve been reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldridge, and seriously, I can’t capture what I want to say about the book and even more what God is doing in me during this time. I wish we could be face to face again and talk about it now….another time perhaps?

Just safe to say for now that God is doing what He promises to do in Philippians 1:6…He is carrying through to completion that which He has begun. He is totally ministering to deep places in my heart that I didn’t even know were there. The past 3 days have been landmarks. Subtle yet life changing. It’s like peices are falling into place. Or like the coming of spring. God’s been patiently preparing me by revealing and removing old dead things, ways, lies, ideas, whatever…all to make room for the blossoms of Resurrected Life to come bursting forth in their appointed time. Something huge in me has shifted…it’s so hard to put it only a few words. It definitely has to do with what Captivating focuses in on: the main strategy of the enemy against feminity, against women. Shaming us (feeling wrongness of being. Of something being instrisically wrong with you) primarily for being women. BEING WOMEN! Now there’s something you can’t change! You can have surgery, but you don’t change who God created you to be…not in your core. You can deny but you can’t change it. I don’t know all the points along the way that I received that lie from the father of all lies: the lie that I am unworthy to even lift my head, because I am a woman (that last word is meant to be heard in a seething disgusted tone. Like you just discovered you stepped something vile). But you better believe that is NOT God’s heart towards me, nor towards ANY woman (let alone any man for that matter!). I’ve been receiving some really deep insight, healing and release from this weighted coat of shame that I’ve been crouched under for years….and just yesterday I recognized that something had indeed changed deep within. Just like when you notice the first buds of spring, then it seems like the next day they are in shy but increasing blossom. Beauty being unveiled at last. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello all,

After a disturbing dream this morning I (Tara) was wide awake at 5 am and couldn’t easily fall back asleep. My mind was completely alert and I had a sudden inspiration to complete a long-overdue portion of our website: About Us. So, with much applause and cheering, may we invite you to check it out!