Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider 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 into the future in strength, courage, hope and love. Because we have 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. Amen
Sir Francis Drake
1540-1596
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