Metaphor

So I had to speak in church a little over a year ago.  The topic they gave me was overcoming spiritual temptation.  Not wanting to divulge my deepest and darkest temptations to the new ward we'd just become a part of (awkward), I thought it best to make my talk personal by using a metaphor.  I chose my favorite one (ask my little sister - she used to get this one all the time).  I likened overcoming temptation and having eternal life with my overcoming the desire to be an uncommitted,  fair-weather runner and therefore getting my best time ever in a marathon.

So that day after church from the comments I received I pretty much deduced that instead of giving a talk on overcoming temptation by talking about running, I'd given a talk on running by talking about overcoming spiritual temptation.

Tonight I gave the baptism talk for a whole family that was being baptized.  This time I likened their baptism to the births I'd seen as a labor and delivery nurse.  Or did I liken the births I'd seen as a labor and delivery nurse to baptism?

Ahhhhhhhhh, that metaphor, that sneaky, sly, wily old metaphor.