Reflections on a Year of Pleasure

My STAR word this year was Pleasure. I’ve reflected on it here and here. What’s not to love about pleasure, right? It’s been a good word. I had a good life before I drew the word, but I recognize I was more intentional about noticing pleasure in random moments of my life this year. I…

Comfortable

Take a moment and watch this video. I absolutely love it. My STAR word this year has been pleasure. And I thought of my word when I watched the above video. For me, this year, pleasure has seemed to locate itself in my embodied existence. I tend to take being embodied for granted. I don’t…

My Year of Pleasure

It sounds so decadent, to even write the title of this post. But the word I drew in worship on Sunday, the word I’m going to be praying with this coming year, is “pleasure”. True story. I had been sorting through the word stars last week, getting them ready for worship, and praying over each…

STARs in 2014

Today the church celebrates the Feast of Epiphany. But since we’re Presbyterian flavored Christians, we actually celebrated it yesterday in worship. (Mid-week worship for most Presbyterians I know is limited to Christmas Eve, Ash Wednesday, and maybe Maundy Thursday.) Anyhow, we received our new STARwords in worship yesterday and I’ve been drawing stars for blog…