1)Stephen Carradini "Joseph"

Joseph

First you’re betrayed by your soon-to-be-wife

And then God comes to you in a dream and says,

“No, really, she’s not lying, it really was supernatural”

And you trust God and trust Mary and go on.

And then you have to go up for the census:

the baby can’t wait,

your family’s house is full, 

Mary is in more and more pain,

This is the first time you’ve done this, 

And oh yeah it will be the Messiah, so don’t screw this up.

But lo, God provides, and the baby is healthy.

And you trust God and go on. 

And then you’re told to go to Egypt, 

Which you do.

And then you’re told to go back,

Which you do. 

Then God says “Not Jerusalem though,”

So you don’t.

You go back to Nazareth,

because you trust God and go on. 

And you come to the end of your life,

And your son is not the messiah (yet?)

Mostly a good carpenter and a kind man

Loves God, knows an incredible amount of Torah

And yet

God has never failed you before. 

You trust God and go on.

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Stephen Carradini writes, teaches, and sings in Arizona.