It's smart to always have a backup plan.
When your Momma and I lived in Utah we lived in a house right next door to our church's building for a while. This was both a blessing and a curse, but I'll get into that at a later time.
Rather than share the load, the church we went to likes to rope all the men into doing the work and keep the women on the bench during the church service. From time to time I was even assigned various tasks to perform. One time I was assigned the task of doing all the talking when the bread and grape juice was passed out. Basically, it was me and four other guys standing up front looking anxious and constipated.
My job on this occassion was to say a few words about Jesus dying on the cross and read some bible verses. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that I had to do this until just before the church service started. Rather than flip through the bible hurriedly to find a few verses to read, I relied on my backup plan.
When the time came I stepped up to the microphone and rattled off two verses and a chorus of Petra's Enter In. Of course I wasn't able to rock it out like Petra, and I definitely don't have a voice like the legendary John Schlitt, but it still rings true even in spoken word form. And the best part is that no one had a clue
So there you have it. When you find yourself in a pinch, just look to 90's Christian Rock to help bail you out.