A SEAMAN'S PRAYER

A SEAMAN'S PRAYER O God, I ask you to take me into you care and protection along with all those who go down to the sea in 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 my time of crisis. Protect me in the dangers and perils of the sea, and even in the storm grant that there maybe peace and calm within my heart. When I am far from home and far from loved ones and far from my country, help 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. Keep me true to them and keep them true to me, and everytime that we have part, bring us together in safety and loyalty again. Amen.

Yangtze River,Nantong, China