As we enter our second week of Advent in anticipation of the birth of Christ, we turn to the book of Isaiah. In a prophecy written hundreds of years before that day in Bethlehem, Isaiah writes that out of the roots of Jesse, a branch shall grow from its roots.  A new heaven and new earth will come from this shoot where ‘the wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.’ For hundreds of years the Jewish people waited for this prophesy to be fulfilled. It came in the form of Jesus.  We also wait during this Advent season to celebrate the birth of our Savior, whose roots trace all the way back to Jesse.