Mark 6:2-3 (Tree of Life Version) “When Shabbat came, He began to teach in the synagogue. Many listeners were amazed, saying, ‘Where did this fellow get these things? What’s this wisdom given to Him? Such miracles are done by His hands! Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Miriam, and the brother of Jacob and Joseph and Judah and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us?’”
My grandfather was a woodworker. I remember the smell of damp and sawdust in his workshop in the basement of his house. He caned chairs and turned table legs and planed runners for rocking chairs. He made me a child-sized rocking chair when I was small, as well as a rocking horse (named Carrot), a doll’s highchair, and a doll’s cradle. He assembled the grandfather clock that stands now in my parents’ living room. He was a craftsman, and he crafted everything he made with care and love.
We are not all woodworkers or carpenters, but we are all creative in some way. Jesus the Carpenter—like God the Creator—inspire us to use our creative abilities, whatever our talents are, to demonstrate care and love for our fellow humans.
—Rebecca Glancy
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