Psalm 92 (links validated on 1/19/22)

In a sermon Barbara Brown Taylor told a story related to the African American nanny who used to care for Barbara and her siblings when they were young. They liked their nanny just fine but she could be a bit reserved and sometimes they wished she would engage them more. Well, one day they begged her to do an activity with them. She agreed, somewhat to the surprise of Barbara and her siblings. The nanny told them to get out their crayons and some blank sheets of paper and draw their own house. So the children did so, sketching their nice two-story home, the front yard, the tire swing, the requisite white picket fence. Then the nanny urged them to grab their orange and red crayons and draw fire coming down from the sky and starting to consume their nice house and yard. “Because that is what’s gonna happen to y’all then the Lord comes again!” Well it was rather startling and sobering for the children. But the look on the nanny’s face said that for her part, she took great comfort at the prospect of that kind of reckoning coming down from heaven one day by and by.

Scroll down to page 71 for this resource (with Ps. 88).