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…
Here are some reflections from around the blogosphere from folks about their new star words. The Pudgy Parson wrote “Joyful and Triumphant” about her word “Triumph”. Whitney, at Glimpses of Grace wrote “Found in Translation” about her word, “Vision”. Mary Beth begins her ruminations on “Testimony” at “Watch This Space” over at Terrapin Station. The…
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…
I used to be the person who warned about setting resolutions that weren’t attainable. And I’m thankful we still have those reminders out there. Because I’ve set resolutions at the New Year and I’ve abandoned them by Jan 4. (This may be the best article I’ve read about this lately–“Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This…
So, each year on Epiphany, the day the church celebrates the wisemen’s visit to Jesus, our congregation passes out stars that have words written on them. People are invited to pray through the word on their star and see what God has to say to them in the process. I’ve written about it before. (At…
Every year on Epiphany, our congregation is invited to take a star out of a basket as it is passed around. Each star has a different word and people are invited to keep that word with them throughout the year, seeing if they can incorporate it into their conversation with God. Is there something God…
Originally posted on Spacious Faith:
On Epiphany, fellow pastor and blogger Marci Glass was giving out star words–words to hold and ponder and listen to in the coming year. My word is desiring. And it has woven its way through these past five months with glitters and shimmers and quavers and shouts and sighs too…
Here is a guest reflection by Sarah Mathews Howard, (a friend from Trinity U) on her Star word: Refreshment Refreshment – what an interesting word – the first thing that came to mind was snacks. Seemed kind of weird to associate snacking with God’s word, but then as I thought about it and prayed about…
Originally posted on You Win Some, You Learn Some:
It started out so innocently. A blogger, whose writing I enjoy and who I also know to be a lovely person IRL, as the kids say offered to pull a word out of hat (or bowl, or cup or bag–however she did it) for anyone who…
My STARword for 2013 is ADVENTURE. Much like last year’s word, PRACTICE, I wasn’t so thrilled when it chose me. Because I am not, particularly, an adventurous person. I am a home-body. I have never been particularly adventurous. A famous family story involves a 7 year old Marci refusing to cross the border to Tijuana…
Glass Overflowing 