(Jesus has gone to John to be baptized into the kingdom movement, and from there has been led by God into a time of wilderness testing. Now, when John is arrested by the king, Jesus goes back north to Galilee, leaves his home town of Nazareth, and makes a new home even farther north and east in Capernaum on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where he begins preaching the coming of the kingdom of God, and gathering disciples into the movement.)
Why on earth Capernaum? And why just then?
Second question first: isn't the time of falling darkness precisely when you light whatever candle you have?
And the first question? The one about why there?
Maybe the answer is why not. Don't you light a candle where it will at least have a chance not to be blown out right away? Maybe out on the edge away from the fiercest part of the storm? Where it can start to make a real difference for people in the dark, and maybe be part of some greater light creeping into, and enlightening the world?
I wonder, as I prepare for Sunday's worship, what kind of candle we light these days in the world as a church? And where?
It is there. It casts its little light into the dark of our time. And it will be good for us to celebrate it.
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