Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
The question usually arrives early in a conversation, somewhere between hello and the first sip of a drink: so, what do you do? When you are between jobs, that small question can land heavily. You hear yourself say "nothing at the moment", or reach for something vaguer, and feel yourself shrinking a little as the words come out.