ABSTRACT
Intense, eschatological phrases often indicate that people feel threatened and isolated by powers and principalities too vast to be handled or even labeled in a personal way. The caregiver may be caught off guard or intimidated by such God-talk, perhaps even frightened. We may interpret such outbursts as threatening and may immediately feel defensive. On the other hand, we may brush these phrases off as just ignorant superstitions or signs of illiterate religion. But when caregivers examine and interpret these words from the perspective of apocalyptic language, they take on different connotations.
