(Part one of two)  The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him (God, the Father).  Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed.  We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.  Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure” (1 John 3:1-3).  John is addressing the bias of which Clooney writes.  “Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds” (Psalm 98:1).  A new song, that is start all over again, setting aside previous biases.  “I did not know him . . . I did not know him” (John 1:31 and 33).  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 206, January 3.