Many of you reading are from a broad range of faiths (or no faith).  And a subset of you have various ways of regarding Jesus and the Bible–be it sacred or spiritual or support.  My own family is Quaker and most people look at us as Bible-based, Jesus-following Buddhists (although they don’t generally know enough about Buddhism to know that we are more aligned with Christianity than Buddhism).

I had the opportunity to do a guest blog for a friend of mine on her series about Advent. I chose to write about “Life After Christmas” and how we can carry Jesus with us into the New Year.  It’s a topic I feel very strongly about:

Our family tries very hard to walk the path of Jesus as a lifestyle.  We try to carry Christ with us in each step.  I am blessed to have a husband who walks with me in this journey and when one of us hesitates to offer love or service, the other is quick to redirect with a gentle “What would you want someone to do if we were in those shoes?”.  I had a shirt at one point that said “Live in a way such that people who know you but don’t know Jesus will know Jesus because they know you”.  And that’s what we did.

For the rest, you’ll have to click on over to Claire’s blog, Radically Broken and read my post “The Love of Ignorance”. While you’re there, you might as well check out the prior days of December with a cup of tea and an afternoon to think deeply on some of the topics and let them help you mold your coming year.  As for myself–I’ll be posting more here soon enough!