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Mia Pohlman

Mia Pohlman is a writer for rustmedia, producing content for Flourish Magazine, B Magazine, TBY and Mind + Body.

Love thy family as you love your fellow strangers

Sunday, November 13, 2011

I didn't always think that being God's love to my family members was a big way to serve him. Even though my family members are the people who mean the most to me, they were also the people I spent the most time with, and it didn't always seem particularly exciting or exotic to intentionally be God's love to them. I love my family with my own love and thought that God loving through me with his much more selfless, good and powerful love was only for strangers who might not know him that I encountered, because that seemed much more adventure-filled.

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