cirque de hiday?

One of my favorite books is 100 Graces - Mealtime Blessings.

It sits on our dining room table and we read a different blessing

from it before meals. (That is, when we remember.)

Tonight, with my daughter and her husband here,

I randomly picked this blessing to pray before dinner:

Our Father, we are

grateful for this family,

who hand in hand form

one unbroken circle.

Help us to do Thy will,

as caring individuals and

as a loving family.

Amen.

It's a lovely blessing. But talk about your Freudian slips...Here's what I prayed:

Our Father, we are

grateful for this family,

who hand in hand form

one unbroken circus.

Then I started laughing -

not sure anyone else thought it was that funny.

I thought it was hilarious because it's so true.

We are a circus - with the exception of the clowns.

(Let's not go there.)

Just two letters changed the intent, or did it?