You have been and continue to be on my prayer list. God will provide you opportunities and give you the words to say in those opportunities. I pray for your boldness and the receptiveness of the others hearts. His word never returns void.

As far as stars...I consider them something I can give away freely, so why not?

My feelings on stars (and I've beaten on them enough myself) is that I usually reserve them for the "me too" spots.  Spots where I agree but have very little to say.  Falls back to netiquette where people used to hate "me too" responses. That seems to have changed some now-a-days

There are also those where I either beat on the other person (probably not the nicest way to put it, but I can get a little intense) and want them to know that while I disagree I respect them for their opinion.

And then there are those rare items where I have something to say, but feel strongly enough that I star anyways.

But this isn't really about stars is it. :)  And for the rest of this I probably owe you one of them there things.