Homophones

I'm an Elder at my church. This past Sunday morning, the Deacons, Elders and Ministers were conversing in the office a few minutes before the service began. As is the custom, the Minister asked me (one of the Elders) to say a quick prayer before entering the sanctuary.

The normal prayer template is:

Thank you for ___, ___, and _____
Please be with all those in this room and help us to create a meaningful worship service.
Amen.

Well, I have this thing about public prayer. It frightens me. Not the prayer so much, but the activity of praying aloud in front of others. I actually do better in front of the entire congregation than in a small group setting. To me, prayer is a personal thing. Anyway, I was all ready to go with the standard and customary prayer template and then said...

Thank you for the sun of the morning after the rain of the week.

(internally) What was that? A flourish of creativity? Shoot. That sounded ridiculous. Who talks like that? And then, I thought… Wait, do you think people understood what I meant? Maybe they thought I said:

Thank you for the son of the mourning after the reign of the weak.

I just used four homophones that have religious connotations. And then I laughed out loud. And then said Amen.

No one said anything (also sort of a custom -- you are going in to church after all), but my friend looked at me as if to say, "What was that?!?"