Tonight was seminary graduation and it was long and spiritual. My son gave the closing prayer. The last line of the prayer was "and please bless the refreshments that they may satisfy our tastebuds."

My daughter and I had a great laugh, along with many others!

It was also funny that he didn't think it was funny, it just made sense to him.

Anything to lighten the atmosphere is great. When I did refreshments in nursery, it was like my own personal experiments in Chaos Theory. Let's give these kids sugar and watch the chaos.

http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2016 12:23AM by madalice.

Oh, that IS funny!

Bless these treats, oh Lord most high,
Our taste buds for to satisfy!

Makes more sense than asking for cookies and punch to "nourish and strengthen our bodies."

It's funny how common this was as prayer. Evidently no one knew how to deviate or they didn't care that much and wanted to get on with eating (can't blame them). And Mormons say their prayers aren't canned like the Lord's Prayer lol.

Well, at least he was original." ....to strengthen and nourish our bodies" is getting rather tiresome. Plus, sugar and chips don't do much strengthening and nourishing.

Why do Mormons always bless the refreshments after firesides or other functions? I did not know that Punch and Twinkies could be given “divine” attributes to “strengthen our bodies and do us the good we need”.

The most ridiculous and funniest prayer I ever witnessed was at a fireside where someone gave a closing prayer and blessed the refreshments to “strengthen our bodies”. Little did they know what my friends and I prepared for refreshments for that fireside.

Every week my 2 friends and I were always asked to bring cookies or donuts with drinks to the weekly firesides as no one else would pony up any goodies. As teenagers, the price of all these treats took a toll on our meager budgets so we decided to put an end to these relentless requests to supply refreshments once and for all.

In preparation for that night’s fireside, we bought a box of medium sized Milk Bone Dog treats, a can of Hershey chocolate syrup, two bottles of Tonic water, and two bottles of Ginger Ale. While drinking the real Ginger Ale, we dipped 2 dozen or so Milk Bones into the Hershey chocolate sauce and placed them on a cookie sheet in the freezer to give a hard chocolate coating to the dog biscuits. After creating our chocolate “cookies”, we dyed the tonic water yellow and poured it back into the now empty Ginger Ale bottles and resealed the tops. Our “refreshments” were now ready for that evening’s fireside.

The fireside was your typical Mormon youth fireside but as the fireside came to a close, we knew that whoever was asked to give the closing prayer would bless the refreshments. Like clockwork, the “refreshments” were blessed with the worn out traditional phrase “…to strengthen our bodies and do us the good we need…”

I have never had to stifle a laugh so hard in my life. I thought my teeth would shatter from the pressure especially as I opened my eyes only to meet my two friend’s eyes and watching them go through the same torture of burying a laugh as I was going through.

At long last, the prayer was over and we stood up and walk over to the kitchen. I grabbed the treats and my friends grabbed the altered “Ginger Ale” and we spread them out for all to enjoy. I could not take it anymore so I stuck my head into a broom closet to try and compose myself without anyone asking why I had such a smirk on my face.

The three of us watched from a short distance as people begin to bite down on our special “cookies” and I remember one of the boys biting down hard producing a loud crack as the Milk Bone biscuit snapped in his mouth. With a loud voice, and with the Bishop standing behind him, he said “What the fuck are these?” The facial expression on the Bishop was priceless.
That remark was the last straw for my two friends and I. We could not hold in or stifle the laughing anymore so we snuck out the back door to the car. Once in the car, we broke out in such laughter I thought we would all pass out. We laughed so hard and so long that we almost got into a car wreck on the way home.

We did learn that all our special “cookies” were eaten. This was a good thing as they were blessed. In fact, we did notice later on in the week, that those who partook of the goodies, their hair looked a bit more shiny than before and that their teeth were free of tarter.

The only way you could have made this funnier was to add ex-lax to the Hershey's syrup.

How soon will someone bring Brownies with 'extra ingredients' to a church meeting???

Charlie Anderson (Jimmy Stewart, movie Shenandoah):

Lord, we cleared this land. We plowed it, sowed it, and harvest it. We cook the harvest. It wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be eating it if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel, but we thank you Lord just the same for the food we're about to eat, amen.