"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to."

With that little blurb of motivation from Carl van Doren, perhaps I'll be able to happily blog my way through English 115.

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Giving a Sacrament Talk

I remember the word game MadLibs from when I was a kid. You would play with a friend, and he or she would ask you for the first word you could think of that was a noun, very, famous place, adverb, etc. etc. They would fill all the words into the MadLibs book and then read you the silly story that you helped to create.

It has occurred to me numerous times while sitting in Sacrament Meeting that many sacrament talks follow the MadLibs format. I’m not trying to be irreverent, or sacrilegious, but I think it’s sometimes funny how “cookie-cutter” talks can get. So I thought it would be fun to write a MadLibs sacrament talk, although I wouldn’t recommend actually filling in the words and giving it in front of the congregation.

Oh yeah, by the way, this sacrament talk is ©, ®, and ™, so don’t even try to give it in your ward unless you give me, the author, the full and deserved credit.





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