Walter Brueggeman continues with the notion that Inversions begin in a change of language and he offers this second example:
The second image is birth to the barren one. Barrenness is a proper theme among us for it is more than television, which is a wasteland. Our society is filled with eunuchs of both sexes whose manhood and womanhood are taken by the corporation. There is no hope, no future, and therefore no children. There is not enough energy to bear or to beget, and who wants to birth new children for Babylon? Our history always begins with the barren, with Sarah, with Rebekah, with Rachel, and with Elizabeth. Among those as good as dead, the wondrous gift is given.
God even brings forth promises in the most unpromising of realities. Again, that is how we can be awakened to live today. All the grand living of the contemporary powers will not be able to stop God's Word from coming alive again and bringing into shape a people who do not live from the same roots as those who claim to have won the day. With nothing at all in hand and with the certainty of nothing to come, God takes hold of us and begins to shake loose life and unbind us so that we do not give up our lives to the culture or the voices that attempt to rule us and control us.
Connection: Keep watch and listen, for there is more to come than what we are being shown by the powers of the day. This "more" is all about life.
We give you thanks, O God, as we expect new life to spring up from among your faithful people so as to reveal a witness to the life you have promised us from the beginning of time. Amen.
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