"In many places such miracle-anticipating imperatives sound strange but
not in this miracle-prone community. Such miracle-anticipating
imperatives sound embarrassing in a military-industrial community where
everything is on program. They sound strange in church communities
inured into technological horizons. They sound strange in bourgeois
communities of the self-sufficient, where little is hoped and little is
expected and, consequently, little is asked. And when asked, that little
asking is timid and polite and deferential. But not here. Not in this
community. Not with these bodies voiced. Not with pain brought candidly,
hopefully to speech. Not in address to this Thou, whose work is in,
with, under, and stunningly beyond our little systems that have their
day and cease to be." - Walter Brueggemann, Disruptive Grace
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