Saint Joseph

ETERNAL CARPENTER

How blessed the human hands that taught Jesus how to build from wood.

Though in our Heavenly Father's Heart, He was with Him as God created each

plant that stood.

And how blessed the homes that held tables or chairs where Jesus's loving hands had lain.

A lifetime of meals eaten on the very furniture our dear Savior had planed!

And how Jesus must have been sadden to know soon in the time ahead.

That on His Father's own creation, mankind would see Him dead.

But Jesus also knew what His complete obedience would attain.

And must have felt great joy in knowing the souls for His Father,

His sacrifice would gain.

He still builds for His Father from the many hearts of wood.

A gift of turning the wayward, broken or harden, to the Truth and

strengthens our own good.

For now in His heavenly kingdom, Jesus, still remains a carpenter, an eternal role.

His love sands away the selfishness, His forgiveness strips away all stains of sin.

His mercy straightens the warped and by His healing makes human hearts whole.

© By Jacqueline Ann Piech 4/2005