Productive time

They go to Capernaum- seems to be where Jesus base is for a lot of his ministry years. Writing that it strikes me once again that Jesus only had about three of these. By far the biggest portion of his adult life was spent as a tekton- one who constructs, builder, carpenter- less frequent use – worker in stone (BDAG). On the whole most of his life is spent as a 'normal' human being- or Jew in Galilee- and we know next to nothing about it- except what we can infer from the man we see in the gospels- and what must have he spent time in before this time to become this (a thoroughgoing knowledge of the scriptures, a propensity to go away to lonely places and spend time with the father). Also the boy at 12 from Lukes account.
Just read this from Theilicke
A person who is only a path through which the daily trafffic passes, who is no more than a busy street where people go rushing by hour after hour and where there is never a moment of rest, will hardly provide soil in which the eternal seed can grow. People who are always on the go are the most in danger.
A person who can no longer be recepive 'soil' for ar least '15' minutes each day, who never allows himself to be “plowed” and opened up, never waits for what God drops into his furrow, that person has actually already lost the game at the crucial point. The rich and the great people of this world, whose names everybody knows, because they are always out where the traffic is thick, are often very poor people. It is dangerously easy for them to think they are something great when the rushing, heavy traffic keeps constantly passing over them, And yet they are infinitely poorer than a poor, nameless furrow where fruit is springing up.