Blessing Prayer For People About To Leave On A Journey

Father Antony has boarded the plane and lifted off to visit family and friends back in India. Perhaps you too are planning a trip far away, or to your back yard.  As spring moves into the lazy, hazy days of summer, and we begin to plan what we might do with our vacation times whether short or long, its a good idea to stop in the midst of the planning and the packing to lift heart and mind to God and pray for His blessing on our journeys;

Blessed are You, Lord our God,
For You have created a wide and wonderful world
in which we can travel.
We ask your Blessing upon us
as we are about to leave on our journey.
Be our ever-near companion, O Holy Guide of Travelers,
and spread the road before us
with beauty and adventure.
May all the roads ahead of us
be free of harm and eveil.
May we be accompanied by Your holy sipirts
Your Angelic Messengers,
as were our holy ancestors of days past.

On this trip may we take with us,
as part of our travelling equipment,
a heart wrapped in wonder with which to rejoice
in all that we shall meet.

Along with the clothing of wonder,
may we have room in our luggage
for a spiritual map
by which we can find the invisible meanings
of the events f this journey -
of possible breakdowns and rainy day torubles.
Always awake to your Sacred Presence,
to Your Divine Compassionate Love,
May we see in all that happens to us,
in the beautiful and the bad,
the Mystery of Your Holy Plan.

May the Blessing of our God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
be upon us throughout our journey's and vacations,
and bring us home again in safety and peace. Amen.

Edward Hays - "Prayers for the Domestic Church"

Peace and God Bless