BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU LAY YOUR HEAD...

JUDGES 16:18-19
"When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him."

I believe that the significance of Samson laying his head in Delilah's lap, had as much to do with him laying his thoughts, feelings, dreams, strengths, and weaknesses on her, as it did his physical head.

An important take away for me as a leader, is that, I am VERY vulnerable when I have a need, a yearning, for SOMEONE to "lay my head on" and it seems like foxes have dens, and birds have nests, but I have NO PLACE to lay MY head. It is at this dangerous place of vulnerability that I might easily choose the wrong person to tell 'all of my heart' to. Once you give someone all of your heart, it is no longer your "stuff" it is their information now, to do WHATEVER they want with it.
BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU LAY YOUR HEAD.
Some people are so naturally (and beautifully) empathetic, until you are almost enticed to just lay it all on them in the moment...yet at the same time these same people may be constitutionally incapable of honorably dealing with what you've just lain down. So let me just say this,
Never mistake empathy for integrity.
BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU LAY YOUR HEAD.