127:1.8 He was a real though [[youthful]] [[father]] to the [[family]]; he spent every possible hour with the [[Children|youngsters]], and they truly loved him. His [[mother]] grieved to see him [[work]] so hard; she sorrowed that he was day by day toiling at the [[carpenter]]'s bench earning a living for the [[family]] instead of being, as they had so fondly [[planned]], at [[Jerusalem]] studying with the [[rabbis]]. While there was much about her son that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] could not [[understand]], she did [[love]] him, and she most thoroughly [[appreciated]] the willing [[manner]] in which he shouldered the [[responsibility]] of the [[home]]. | 127:1.8 He was a real though [[youthful]] [[father]] to the [[family]]; he spent every possible hour with the [[Children|youngsters]], and they truly loved him. His [[mother]] grieved to see him [[work]] so hard; she sorrowed that he was day by day toiling at the [[carpenter]]'s bench earning a living for the [[family]] instead of being, as they had so fondly [[planned]], at [[Jerusalem]] studying with the [[rabbis]]. While there was much about her son that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] could not [[understand]], she did [[love]] him, and she most thoroughly [[appreciated]] the willing [[manner]] in which he shouldered the [[responsibility]] of the [[home]]. |