During Advent I always check the day's first reading from daily mass. Today's first reading is one of my all time favorite prophecies!
Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb,and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;The calf and the young lion shall browse together,with a little child to guide them.The cow and the bear shall be neighbors,together their young shall rest;the lion shall eat hay like the ox.The baby shall play by the cobra's den,and the child lay his hand on the adder's lair.There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain;for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD,as water covers the sea.
~Isaiah 11
It just so happened that today was a very challenging day of unrest and escalation. What a gift of hope knowing the the vision and plan of our God is one of seemlingly impossible peace: between a wolf and a lamb, a child and a serpent, a cow and a bear.
Also today in accompanying the children in the atrium of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd we heard from the angel Gabriel. He said to the pondering Mary, "for nothing is impossible for God."
Praise God for tremendous messages of hope!
The work of a child in the atrium,
as she ponders God's promise of light
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