My friend Mark is a poster boy to love’s power. Abused and then abandoned by his drug-dependent parents, Mark afterward did the foster-care “tour.” Years later, languishing on city streets and in alley ways - dysfunctional and angry - Mark was discovered by Paul. This kind father-figure took him in. Fifteen years later, Mark himself is friend to men just as broken as he had once been. Mark, like the rest of us, is far from perfect. A work in progress, he bears God’s love.