weary, forgotten, the vulnerable and poor and all in the margins of life. and god wants you to know in every circumstance of life, that you are beloved, whoever you are. whatever you are. whatever you've done, god looks at you today and he loves you. this is the god we know. who loves fiercely. who traffics in life and death. and is known in every dimension of life even in the cross currents of the emotions we experience today. in speaking with many people in these last weeks as colin powell's life was remembered, there was at the beginning of most those conversations, just a slightest of pauses, a recalibrating of the mind and the heart, and a realization