Here’s an *actual* prayer written by Sir Thomas More:
A prayer for good humor by Thomas More:
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.
Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments, nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called “I.”
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others.
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535) was a lawyer, a humanist, and a statesman. He served as the Chancellor of England from 1529 through 1532. More’s refusal to accept King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England marked him for Henry VIII’s vengeance. He was tried and sentenced as a traitor.
