Asleep On Holy Ground - Michael Card

A stone for a pillow

As hard as his head

He slept on holy ground

The dreaming deceiver

He dreamt of a ladder

With angels up and down

And the ladder was a way

The stairway was a sign

The gates of heaven opened wide

Revealing the Divine

Asleep on holy ground he lay

Oblivious to the night

Inside his head and heart

Were full of inexpressible light

Soon he would be confronted

By the friend that we most fear

Asleep on holy ground he lay

Deceitful blessed seer

The dream that he dreamt

Now transformed to a nightmare

As he wrestled with a man

The unearthly power

Of his beloved opponent

Made Jacob understand

That the wrestling was the way

The struggle was the sign

He limped away his lesson learned

Now Israel was defined

He limped away on holy ground

Awakened from the dream

Having learned his costly lesson

From the way of the Nazarene

That pain’s the path to blessing

Love will fight us to be found

And God remains a dream to those

Who sleep on holy ground

He limped away on holy ground

Awakened from the dream

He learned his costly lesson

From the way of the Nazarene

That pain’s the path to blessing

Love will fight us to be found

And God remains a dream to those

Who sleep on holy ground