This prayer by Rabbi Shelia Peltz Weinberg is apt for Thanksgiving. It includes trains, planes and automibiles and also acknowledges the wonder of our lives. It can be found in the Kol Haneshamah prayerbook series, published by the Reconstructionist Press.
A prayer for the journey
We could say it every day
When we first leave the soft warmth of our beds
And don't know for sure if we will return at night
When we get in the trains, planes & automobiles
And put our lives in the hands of many strangers.
Or when we leave our homes for a day, a week, a month or more--
Will we return to a peaceful home? Untouched by fire, flood or crime?
How will our travels change us?
What gives us the courage to go through that door?
A prayer for the journey.
For the journey we take in this fragile vessel of flesh.
A finite number of years and we will reach
The unknown, where it all began.
Every life, every day, every hour is a journey.
In the travel is the discovery,
the wisdom, the joy.
Every life, every day, every hour is a journey.
In the travel is the reward,
the peace, the blessing.
Amen Amen
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