Tourist Prayer
How many of you can relate to this ?
A Tourist's Prayer
Heavenly Father, Look down on us your humble, obedient tourist servants, who are doomed to travel this earth, taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs and walking around in drip-dry underwear.
We beseech you Lord, to see that our luggage is not lost and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed at the customs.
Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels that we may find our reservation honored, our rooms made up and hot water running from the faucets.
Lead us, dear Lord, to good, inexpensive restaurants where the food is superb, the waiter friendly and wine included in the price of the meal.
Give us wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand. Forgive us for under tipping out of ignorance and over tipping our of fear. Make the natives love us for what we are and not for what we can contribute to their worldly goods.
Grant us the strength to visit the museums, the cathedrals,the palaces and the castles listed as "musts" in the guidebooks. And if, per chance, we skip and historic monument, to take a nap after lunch, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
(This part of the prayer is for husbands)
Dear Lord, keep our wives from shopping sprees and protect them from "bargains" they don't need or can't afford. Lead them not into temptation, for they know not what they do.
(This part of the prayer is for the wives)
Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at the foreign women and comparing them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in cafes and nightclubs. Above all, do not forgive them for their trespasses for they know exactly what they do.
(Everyone)
And when our trip is over and we return to our loved ones, grant us the favor of finding someone who will look at our picutures and listen to our stories, so our lives as tourists will not have been in vain.
Heavenly Father, Look down on us your humble, obedient tourist servants, who are doomed to travel this earth, taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs and walking around in drip-dry underwear.
We beseech you Lord, to see that our luggage is not lost and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed at the customs.
Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels that we may find our reservation honored, our rooms made up and hot water running from the faucets.
Lead us, dear Lord, to good, inexpensive restaurants where the food is superb, the waiter friendly and wine included in the price of the meal.
Give us wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand. Forgive us for under tipping out of ignorance and over tipping our of fear. Make the natives love us for what we are and not for what we can contribute to their worldly goods.
Grant us the strength to visit the museums, the cathedrals,the palaces and the castles listed as "musts" in the guidebooks. And if, per chance, we skip and historic monument, to take a nap after lunch, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
(This part of the prayer is for husbands)
Dear Lord, keep our wives from shopping sprees and protect them from "bargains" they don't need or can't afford. Lead them not into temptation, for they know not what they do.
(This part of the prayer is for the wives)
Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at the foreign women and comparing them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in cafes and nightclubs. Above all, do not forgive them for their trespasses for they know exactly what they do.
(Everyone)
And when our trip is over and we return to our loved ones, grant us the favor of finding someone who will look at our picutures and listen to our stories, so our lives as tourists will not have been in vain.
2 Comments:
Ouh! Tu stresses vraiment si tu commences à t'en remettre au Seigneur!
:o)
LOL - en effet :)
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