Expatwife Prayers
Heavenly Father, look down on us your humble obedient expat wives who are doomed to travel this earth following our loved ones through their working lives to lands unknown. We beseech you, oh Lord, to see that our plane is not hijacked or doesn't crash, our luggage is not lost or pillaged and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed.
Give us this day divine guidance in our selection of houses, maids and drivers. We pray that the telephone works, the roof does not leak, the power cuts are few and the rats and cockroaches even fewer.
Lord, please lead us to good, inexpensive restaurants where wine is included in the meal and the food does not cause dysentery. Have mercy upon us Lord if it be the latter, make us fleet of foot, to make the loo in time, and strong of knee in case we have to squat. Also give us the wisdom to tip correctly in currencies we do not understand.
Make the natives love us Lord for who we are and not for what we can contribute to their worldly goods. Grant us the strength to smile at our maids, even though our most treasured dress resembles a rag or they take bleach to clean our well-admired Persian rug.
Give us divine patience when we explain for the hundredth time the way we want things done and Lord if we ever lose our patience and thump them, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
Dear God, protect us from so-called "bargains" we don't need and can't afford. Lead us not into temptation for we know not what we do.
Almighty Father, keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, please do not forgive their trespasses for they know exactly what they do.
And when our expat years are over Lord, grant us the favor of finding someone who will look at our photographs and listen to our stories, so our lives as expat wives will not have been in vain.
Amen
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come on ... it is only a coffee ... i will make sure the ladies with baby will not sit next to you. :P Pleasssseeee ....
what happened? why you give me a link to my own post?
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/20914#comment-107130
Join in mums group .... i tried to make Qatar living mum coffee morning monthly. And places and timing we decided together unlike in EW. And this is non profit :P
Done the first coffee few days ago ... only me and staying alive. lol.
If you cant come next month, try August or September. When your son start the school? September 4th like DESS i guess? or maybe a bit earlier in american curriculum.
Yes would love to meet up. DEFENITELY !
got it now. Duh...
thump means to hit or punch
----> i know that Mam ... dont have to rub it in.
Novy, that part where it said
"keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, please do not forgive their trespasses for they know exactly what they do."....
Yes, Novy, yes men knows when they really crossed the line...hehehe
i remember my MAN looking sheepish one time...lol
-----> actually as i said in another post ... i never have a maid since i declare myself as an expatwives. Done most of my stuffs on my own. Also the driver for my son, and for my husband when we go out to ppl houses for party. And my husband will never leave the house without me. lol.
thump means to hit or punch
Grant us the strength to smile at our maids, even though our most treasured dress resembles a rag or they take bleach to clean our well-admired Persian rug.
Give us divine patience when we explain for the hundredth time the way we want things done and Lord if we ever lose our patience and thump them, have mercy on us for our flesh is weak.
Novita, article great, am going to call tv company and tell them to come HERE, we are much more glam!
Seriously, I cannot see anything about hitting maids in that prayer.
----> just about to thump the maid (5th paragrapahs down).
when are you going for hols???
What you hiding for??????
----> for posting thumping a maid. lol. I never have a maid in 8 yrs of marriage. Eventhough my parents have 4 maids and 2 drivers back in Jakarta.
Novi, truer words have never been spoken!
Even though I could add a few......
-----> novi still hiding under the table and counting down ....
Jasmine ... sorry ... people SOH is different. I am sure if you come from the UK you will see the 'funny' side of it.
Have a look of this site :
http://www.7days.ae/showstory.php?id=52962
I can see the 'tounge and cheek' of the articles. But judging by the respond not everyone can understand it. Some people got 'twisted knickers' lol.
We can all vent it out in a thread under Gypsy's AS group...hehehe
Seriously, I cannot see anything about hitting maids in that prayer.
Sorry too, didn't mean to spoil it. You're right, it is tongue in cheek and I am sure that QL friends do not hit anyone. Except perhaps the odd troll!
because of this, I have to think again about my offer to become an "expat wife" ;-)
Cheers
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable solitude. - H.D. Thoreau!
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Thanks for pointing it out. I am sorry if the article offended you. But then again ... i mean no harm. I still believe the article just as a 'tounge in cheek'.
5th paragraph down
and btw ... here where i got the source from
http://www.expat.or.id/info/expatwifesprayer.html
And thank you JJ ... your point is taken :-).
jasmine where about on the thread written hitting maids?
I have come across this before and can see that it is just a joke but even so, hitting maids? Its probably because I have come from the super politically correct UK, but just isn't funny to me. I accompanied a friend to her government medical and saw a big group of maids who had just arrived in the country. They were tired, shaking and being pushed around by the guy from the agency, treated like little more than cattle. There was terror in their eyes. They are here because they have no choice, I cannot imagine how that would feel but I do know that if someone posted something jokey about thumping puppies or kittens, there would be more of a response than to this. Sorry, I know you meant no harm by posting this, I just wanted to make my point.
"keep our husbands from looking at foreign women and comparing them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in nightclubs. Above all, please do not forgive their trespasses for they know exactly what they do."....
Yes, Novy, yes men knows when they really crossed the line...hehehe
i remember my MAN looking sheepish one time...lol
hehehe....
I didn't know that expat wives have to go through all THAT! I don't think I'll have the stamina..lol