Joseph - Jason Crabb

Joseph did you want to pack your tools

Head to someplace where nobody whispered

There goes Mary's fool

Joseph did you look up and raise your hands

Praying god you know

I've always tried to be a righteous man Joseph

Joseph did you lie awake confused

Thinking about the small town scandal

And what loves supposed to do Joseph

If you felt you've been betrayed

Still you didn't walk by feelings

But you chose to walked by faith Joseph

You couldn't take her as your wife

Wouldn't let harm come to her

You looked beyond the shame

And stood between her and an angry world

And you made no accusations

So no one could raise a stone

Did you feel so hurt confused and all alone

Joseph did you wake up and want to scream

God are you really speaking

Through some angel in a dream

Joseph did it all just seem absurd

That your wife might be the one

To fulfill the prophet's words Joseph

You denied yourself for others

Obeyed when nothing much made sense

You were a strength and shelter

On the road to bethlehem

And kneeling by the manger

Bathed in soft starlight

Did you know who's face you touched that holy night

Joseph I hope to sit with you one day

And hear you tell me all about

The choices you were called to make

Joseph it was you and no one else

That god had trusted to take care of

Mary and himself

Joseph Joseph it was you Joseph

It was you Joseph