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At The Carpentry Shop Afterward
Yes, Jesus could build quite an ornate chair,
or set a shelf, or level up your table.
I never knew him, once, to be unable
to do the work. But he most loved repair,
especially of tools used on a farm
(where time and circumstance can wreak much harm):
a plow's blade bent by hidden stones, a yoke
cracked by the oxen, or a wheel's snapped spoke.
That which was breaking or already broken,
he fixed with expertise that was well spoken
of, not just in our own town, Nazareth,
but further on through greater Galilee---
before he set forth on his ministry,
before he crossed those lines and met his death.
Starward
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