Sunday, July 20, 2025

A place to lay your head…

 A place to lay your head…


Last night I slept in a “taco” bed, you know, one of those which sinks and you are in the  middle trying to get out or turned over…


It made me reminisce of beds I have slept in over the years…


Blowup beds…

  Ones which slowly leak during the night…

  Ones which immediately leak upon blowing into…

  Ones which squeak when moving …

  Ones which are too short …

  Ones which have weird blowup pattern …


Ground…

 Plain dirt..

 Dirt with a few rocks…

Gravel..

Dirt with twigs…


Mattresses….

Taco…

Hard as rock…

Thin pad  on cement…

Water bed..

Thermo, cooks you while you try to sleep…

Sponge…

Kapok…

Down…expensive or cheap…can feel each feather end or not…

Mattresses that you slide to the middle or off the side…

Old, smelly….


Tent city/forts made of pillows and blankets…


The bathroom floor when I was sick or a child was so sick…


Comfortable mattresses….😊😇


A fun exercise of remembering those odd little pieces of time….sleeping or trying to sleep


Jesus, the Son of God, left heaven to first sleep in a manger…I am sure his parents made it as comfortable as they could…


Then later …

 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Matt.8.20


Thank YOU…


No place to lay my head…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfxnLJpRXY4&list=RDRfxnLJpRXY4&start_radio=1


A cloud without color cloaks the dawn

As I cling to my earnest resolve

With faltering footsteps and fire in my heart

I fight to stand up when I fall

Though the drone of defeat drums a deafening roar

And mocks each advance that I make

I refuse to retire or relinquish my hold

On the righteousness I undertake


I'm a pilgrim of Heaven

This world's not my own

I may walk by myself but I'm never alone


No place to lay my head

Like my Lord who came before

Though the birds have their nest

I have nowhere to rest

And there is no place, no place

No place to lay my head

Like My Lord

Though the birds have their nest

I have nowhere to rest

And there is no place to lay my head


The struggle is sweetness and pleasure the pain

As I walk where the Savior has been

Adversity howls down the mountains I climb

With the fury of Golgotha's wind

The rendering of pride is the sword in my side

And surrender the nails in my hands

Down my own way of sorrows I carry my cross

On a journey that's just as He planned



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