Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A ROCK?
Since childhood I have been familiar with the Genesis 28 story of Jacob's dream where he sees angels ascending and descending the ladder to heaven, and everytime I run into that account I always have the same question- Why was he using a rock as a pillow? That sounds really uncomfortable...worse than using nothing at all. Couldn't he have wadded up a tunic or something? I think even scraping a little pile of dirt together would have been better then resting his noggin on the unforgiving surface of a rock. Does that part of the story strike anyone else as strange? My friend, John Cornish, who is a new Christian, found the story interesting and intends to recreate it out in the desert near his home in Palm Springs. I'll let you know if he liked sleeping with a rock for a pillow when he gets back to me.
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i've always found that interesting too...and I've found it interesting in the same manner that the Bible mentions that Jesus's burial clothes were rolled up. Interesting detail. A rock?
It is very strange but Uncle Tony has been known to use O'Douls bottles & other very hard, strange things for pillows. He does this while watching T.V. on the floor when a perfectly comfortable sofa or love sac is left unoccupied.I think he would probably fit in the rock pillow camp.
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