A Seafarer’s Prayer …
Posted on 23 May 2009 by k. a. gardner
As a member of Crowley Maritime Corporation‘s Facebook group, Flipside. Florida. is taking this opportunity to “reprint” yesterday’s post:
In recognition of the importance of the U.S. Merchant Marine, the Congress, by joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 the designation of May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day. Please join Crowley in acknowledging their service with the Seafarers’ Prayer.
A Seafarers’ Prayer
O God, I ask you to take me into your care and
protection along with all those who sail ships.
Make me alert and wise in my duties. Make me faithful in the time of routine, and prompt to decide and courageous to act in any time of crisis.Protect me in the dangers and perils of the sea;
and even in the storm, grant that there may be peace and calm within my heart.When I am far from home and far from loved ones and far from the country that I know, help me to be quite sure that, wherever I am, I can never drift beyond your love and care.
Take care of my loved ones in the days and weeks and months when I am separated from them, sometimes with half the world between them and me.
Keep me true to them and keep them true to me,
and every time that we have to part, bring us together in safety and in loyalty again.This I ask for your love’s sake. -Amen-
If official days were reefs, nobody would sail.
I do not pray, and do not like to be invited to pray.
That said, may everyone’s loved ones return home safely.
Amen to that, Chicken.