Epiphany Star Words
We’re doing Star Words again!
On this page, you can share your Star Word story from a previous year, request your 2024 Star Word (if you can’t participate in worship on January 7) and read the Star Word stories on Instagram between January 7 and February 13.
Share your Star Word stories
For quite a few years now, Cedar Park United has been part of a far-flung network of faith communities that offer “Star Words” to its members and friends for the season of Epiphany (and in some years, for the entire year).
Over the years when we’ve done this, we’ve received some beautiful, inspiring, sometimes whimsical anecdotes and stories from some of you. We’d love to expand this aspect of our Star Word practice in 2024, by inviting you – or your children – to share your stories, reflections, wisdom, insight, sense of holy guidance, (and even some of your funny and ironic moments!) from your previous Star Word experiences.
We would like to include some of these stories here on this page and on our social media and worship spaces throughout the Epiphany Season (January 6 to February 13). We can “anonymize” your stories if you prefer to share them that way.
Please limit your Star Word to a maximum of 50 words.
Once you’ve created what you want to share, just click on the button below to submit it.
Request your 2024 Star Word
If this will be your first year requesting a Star Word, here’s what it’s all about:
The premise is simple: the Magi travelled great distances over a period of time, following a star, in search of wisdom and divine presence in the world, and they found that divine presence when they reached the home of Jesus. In similar fashion, we choose to be guided into deeper wisdom about ourselves, the holy, and the world, by choosing to focus, for a period of time, on one “Star Word.”
The Star Word (which is randomly given) becomes ours for the length of the Epiphany season, and we’re invited to ponder it, reflect on it, notice it. We may not like it, it may not resonate…at first. But noticing it show up in our daily experience is what makes it become a lode-star, a guiding-star, a north-star for the way we approach and respond to the world, and our life within it.
You can receive your Star Word in onsite worship on January 7 or request it here online and we’ll send it to you starting the afternoon of January 7.
