Track 6: Walking Country Roads

Lily Cathcart November 28, 2025 1 1

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Matthew 8: 18-20 (NIVUK)

18 When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. 19 Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

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

I imagine Jesus is back on the road, the place he knows best with his friends by his side, his feet in the dust, and his guitar on his back. And as he walks and crosses lakes and gets more and more attention his fingers can’t help moving over those strings and so the sixth track on his very varied album becomes a wandering country tune.

In this moment the disciples and friends of Jesus listen to the music rolling beautifully from his guitar, nodding along, and it takes them a verse or two to hear the sadness of a human body without a solid, reliable place to be. It takes them another verse to hear the echo of their own sometimes secret sadness at the life they have chosen by following Jesus on the road.

Jesus knows what he's doing though, God who chose to experience it all so that he could understand what it is to be human: without a home or stability. He knows them and through his album it becomes clear he knows all of us, especially those who don’t have stability or a place to lay their head.

Prayer:

Dear God of wanderers and refugees

Thank you that you became us to really know what our pains and hopes could be

Give us compassion for anyone without a life of certainty

Help us to make this a world where people have a safe place to lay their head

Amen