God sent His Son to the world to offer hope and salvation to humanity. But what did Jesus find when he arrived? He did not find the sons of Adam tending a garden or the daughters of Eve tending a hearth. He did not find pristine human families patiently waiting for the Lord. It was quite the opposite. In the Gospel of Mark, after Jesus calls his disciples and faces his own temptation in the wilderness, Jesus makes his first major public appearance at a synagogue in Capernaum (Mark 1:21-22). He t…