Disturb Us, Lord

Disturb us, Lord when we are too pleased with ourselves,

When our Dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little,

When we arrived safely because we have sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, with the abundance of things we possess

We have lost the 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 wider seas where storms will show Your mastery;

Where loosing sight of land, we shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back the horizons of our hopes,

And to push into the future in stregnth, courage, hope and love.

Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, 1577