St. Joseph the Worker

Appropriately, we kick of the month honoring Mary the Blessed Mother of Jesus with the feast of St. Joseph the Worker!  Also fitting is that I had several job related things today: an interview, two phone calls with old employers and a email request for my resume! God is good and St. Joseph definitely intercedes hardcore (Thanks God!  And thanks for the prayers St. Joe!).  

I unfortunately don't know a lot about St. Joseph the Worker as a feast day but I did find this cool reflection from American Catholic:

In a constantly necessary effort to keep Jesus from being removed from ordinary human life, the Church has from the beginning proudly emphasized that Jesus was a carpenter, obviously trained by Joseph in both the satisfactions and the drudgery of that vocation. Humanity is like God not only in thinking and loving, but also in creating. Whether we make a table or a cathedral, we are called to bear fruit with our hands and mind, ultimately for the building up of the Body of Christ.

Pretty cool to think about: one of the highest honors of humanity that show we are made in the image of God is our ability to create.  Not only to have babies (whoa now!) but to  play, write, act, draw, manufacture, imagine, and dream!

SIDEBAR: Isn't it strange that though Joseph was a master carpenter and taught the Lord his trade, the only thing we ever see him and Jesus holding is a big chunky unshaped block of wood? Seems unfittingly for the foster father of our Lord to be misrepresented as only a carpenter who makes smaller wooden beams from bigger wooden logs.

"This is a big block of wood"

"This is smaller wood"

"Hey Joe, how about we do something with this one instead of leaving it as a beam?"

All forms of creativity are our share in God's creation of the world  from those first 7 days way back in Genesis 1! So next time you do whatever creative thing you do, keep in mind you could use that as an opportunity to build the Body of Christ and show God you love Him and say "I'm going to be like you Dad/ you know I'm going to be like you". *sniffle* everytime it makes me cry, everytime!

BTW just realized Harry Chapin's kinda making a cool parallel to Jesus' command "Be perfect as your Father is perfect" but showing the humanity of our earthly fathers.  BOOM! Grab the kleenex and listen:

Call your pops and say you love him! 

God love you! ~onecatholicguy