Blessing Prayer for Someone About to Leave on a Journey

Written by Ed Hayes and adapted by my friend Liz Brannen for my travels

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 Lisa and Kathy

     as they are about to leave on their great adventure.

May You, Holy Guide of Travelers,

     be their ever-near companion,

     spreading the road before them

     with beauty and adventure.

Free that road and airway from harm and evil,

     and send as their escorts

     Your holy spirits, Your angelic messengers,

     who accompanied the holy ones of days past.

On this journey, may they take with them

     as part of their traveling equipment

     a heart wrapped in wonder

     with which to rejoice in all they shall do and all those whom they shall meet.

May they read the invisible meanings

     of the events of this journey --

     of possible disappointments and delays,

     of possible breakdowns and rainy day troubles.

Always awake to Your Sacred presence

     and to Your divine compassionate love,

     they shall see in all that happens,

     in the beautiful and the bad,

     the mystery of your holy plan.

May the blessings of the Creator,

     the Redeemer,

     and the Holy Spirit

     be upon them throughout this trip;

     may this same blessing shield them from all harm

     and bring them home again in safety and in peace.