From the time I was little, I heard the Sunday School stories about peace will come -- or a new earth will emerge -- when the lion lies down with the lamb. I'm wondering if that holds true when the impala lies down with the kitty.
This is Impy, a baby impala who lives at Antelope Park, a lion breeding program in Zimbabwe. Impy doesn't know it's an impala. She and the kitty cuddle up together for naps. Occasionally Impy wants to join guests for dinner, but her hooves slide across the concrete floors, wide apart, like a giraffe's. She slips and slides and goes kerplunk (Does that remind anyone of the movie "Bambi?") She has learned to content herself with hanging around doorways, head poked inside to see what's happening with the people, or letting kitty rest its head on her back.
My friend Kelly Swift volunteered at Antelope Park in June and July and befriended Impy and the kitty, and a host of lions. See her blog KellySwiftinAfrica.blogspot.com for amazing photos of lions stretched across her lap. When I saw Kelly in Tanzania, I asked to have this photo to show you and to spread the word that I, for one, would like to acknowledge a prophetic sign from Impy and kitty. Peace on the horizon. Why not?
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