THE CARPENTERS’ CROWN
Song-Copyrighted 2001 by Beverly L. Elrod

He left his heavenly home
to make this world ‘his own’;
leaving behind a spiritual throne,
to take up a carpenters’ crown.

From soft white robes to rough cloth rags.
From a scepter to a hammer.
He came down to do God’s will.
Our salvation he was after.

He was a carpenter as a child.
They knew him from that start.
They couldn’t get past his callused hands
to see the hardness of their own hearts.

But when he died upon that tree
and he looked around;
all could see the ring of thorns
where once was a carpenters’ crown.

From soft white robes to rough cloth rags.
From a scepter to a hammer,
He came down to do God’s will.
Our salvation he was after.

Now, he sits at his Fathers’ side-
Knowing what he must do.
He awaits God’s judgment day
watching over me and you.

He’ll be there, in his ‘Heavenly’ chair.
And, when he looks around,
all will see the kingly jewels
where once was a carpenters’ crown.

From soft white robes to rough cloth rags.
From a scepter to a hammer
He came down to do God’s will.
Our salvation he was after.

He left his heavenly home
to make this world his own;
leaving behind a spiritual throne
to take up a carpenters crown.

Have you seen…
the carpenters’ crown?