Disturb us, Lord, when"The Prayer of Sir Francis Drake" - 1577?? I have yet to find a reliable source to confirm this. Can you?
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
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2 comments:
This is a wonderful, moving prayer. How is it that a hardened ship captain (Sir Francis Drake) can find time - and be moved - to put together a prayer like this.
What do we know about his history relative to this prayer?
thanks,
Bill
Good point. I did some research and can find no reliable source.
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