Isaiah 11:2 The spirit of the LORD shall rest on [her], the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
And that which is back to haunt me as it comes around on the lectionary - because I want to imagine something completely and altogether new and which God intends for the new world/kingdom, as the prophets imagined - but which I 1) don't know if is possible to usher in in this world because it is so other-worldly, and 2) don't know if I can affirm and genuinely hope for, because the world we currently live in is so rich and full of life, and a part of that rich cycle of life is death, even death by violent slaughtering by your eternal predator in the natural world (though I know that the predator-prey analogy is at least partially about human power struggles, I can't just put this aside and say, oh, well, it really means that the tax collector will invite the beggar to dinner - because that's not the analogy they're using here - they're talking something much more seeminly in the fabric of our being):
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.11:8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder's den.
At least I don't have to include this text in my paper on monastic life as a model for inclusive property rights. Just don't think about it, Jessica - you've got a paper deadline haunting you as well.
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