You know when you cut down that tree that's growing in the wrong place. It keeps coming back, right? And you know when you've just about had enough of winter? Spring comes, right? That's what Isaiah is talking about here. God promises to come, right into our discouragement, overstimulation, pain, busyness. God is not influenced by the loudest voices, but by what is right, good, life-giving. God promises that the wolf and the lamb are going to live together in peace, that the leopard and the kid are going to lie down together (are you more like the lion or the lamb today?). The nice thing about these promises is that they're for us, today. Knowing that God is coming to us makes it possible for us to imagine new life, a new way of being.
