Unlikely Animal Friends

Some favorite passages of CCC are found in Isaiah. They are what we look to when we think of the future when God ushers in his kingdom; it is our hope, and what we long for. It is God’s promise to us and so we trust in him that he will make it come to pass. Isaiah 11:6 says:

“The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together…”.

So also the tortoise and the canines! These inter-species relationships happening on earth now can be seen as a shadow of the things to come!

“…and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”

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