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Mia Pohlman

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

Recognizing the Jesus in everyone

Sunday, November 10, 2013

The summer before my sophomore year of college, I met Jesus in a woman named Lisa. She was sitting in the grass by the curb of a store's parking lot, and I almost drove past her, trying not to make eye contact. The speedup of my heartbeat as I drove toward the stop sign told me I needed to turn back, though, and as I got out of my car and walked toward her, the fear we're taught to feel toward "poor" people beat inside of me, and I had no idea what I was going to do or say.

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