Daniel
continues to visit the shore of Capernaum because he wants to hear more of the words of Jesus.
He had initially gone to hear the teacher because Joel had asked him to, but after that first
time "he could not get the words of the carpenter out of his head". Daniel finds
himself rising before dawn nearly every morning in the following week so that he could walk the
three miles to the city "to join the little crowd that always waited at the
shore".
Jesus preaches a message of love and acceptance that goes
totally against the creed that Rosh, the insurgent fighter whom Daniel had heretofore idolized,
espouses. Daniel does not always completely understand what Jesus is saying, and he often
returns home "puzzled and impatient", but inexplicably, "a few nights later,
almost against his will, he would go again". Daniel is not sure what Jesus intends to do,
and he also does not know how what he is saying fits in with everything he had once believed,
but he returns to Capernaum "day after day" because "the hope and promise in
Jesus' words (draw) him back".
Daniel's sister Leah is fascinated by the
stories Daniel tells her about what Jesus says and does. Sometimes Daniel thinks that, if
nothing else, his long hours journeying to Capernaum have been valuable because they have
"at least given him something to talk to Leah about" (Chapter
15).
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