I Will Teach The Boy #IamJoseph

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+------I Will Teach The Boy; The Thoughts Of Joseph Leading Jesus and Mary To Egypt 

In Egypt
I’ll teach the boy carpentry,
inculcate in him principles
of flesh chafing, metal points,
wood bloodied. Of scars that
speak of strength from pain; the
beauty of mosaic reliefs  
in synagogues, and tables, boats,
altars after much persevering. I’ll speak
of the deceitfulness of knives, the
treachery of an ax in a man’s hands,
hissing for limbs with a stray sway when
he looks away from the bench for just
one moment. So he’ll know betrayal. I’ll say
“son, remember all I taught you”
that carpentry is your life and death-
at first you will craft wood for men,
but in the end they will use wood, nails
to craft you (into God's greatest work).

-----Matthew 2:13-23
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.