Grief made him sleepless, and he peered thoughtfully into the starry heavens, asking: "What will deliver them from this misery ?" The stars were silent.

But out of the distance, out of the stillness of eternity, it was proclaimed: I love them so deeply, that I shall send my own Son to make them happy.
By day Joseph took care that the youth should not dream too much.
Jesus must learn his trade.

He did so willingly but not gladly, for his head was not with his hands, and while he should have joined two beams to make a door frame, the dark saying of the Prophet sounded in his head: "He is numbered among the transgressors." "What are you doing there?
Is that a door frame?
It's a cross!" So Joseph awoke him out of his reverie, and Jesus was terrified to see that he had nailed the pieces of wood crosswise.
"Tell me," said Joseph to the boy, "what are you thinking of?
If you've any sense in your head use it for your honest work.

The simplest handicraft needs it all, and not only a piece here and there.
And especially carpentering, which builds people houses, bridges, ships, and yea, temples for Jehovah.

You cannot imagine what mischief a bad carpenter may do.