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Finding Faith: The wonderful feeling of being 'seen'

Inside a local convenience store, store manager Marcus greeted cashier Mason, exclaiming, "Look who I found!" Mason responded, "Marcus was just saying this morning that we haven't seen you in a while."
After two years working with his team, the narrator reports the most critical work involves "seeing people for the unique and beloved child of God they are," prioritizing human connection over physical aid alone.
"Doesn't your world light up when someone takes a moment just to acknowledge you as a person?" the author asks. Humans crave being seen, and when lacking that acknowledgement, "all sorts of bad happens."
Following Jesus' command to love their neighbor, faithful staff mirror the Gospel of John, where Jesus tells Bartholomew , "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you."
Hundreds of people visit the shelter every day, where staff witness guests' tears of gratitude not for material aid but for being seen as fellow human beings.

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Finding Faith: The wonderful feeling of being 'seen'

“Pastor D!” Marcus exclaimed, as he and I walked into the convenience store together, him holding the door for me. “Haven’t seen you in a while!” Marcus, the store’s manager, was adorned in a fluorescent vest indicating that he’d been working outside. Just inside the double doors to my favorite morning pit stop, Marcus looked over to Mason who was working behind the cashier’s desk and said, “Look who I found!” Mason, happily chimed in, “Marcus w…

1 day ago·Cherokee County, United States

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