Allow Me to Digress

Just so I wouldn’t forget, I need to share this… I heard this today in church.  I hope you get disturbed too.

Disturb us, Lord

when we are too well pleased with ourselves;

when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little

when we arrive 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 fall 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 stormswill show your mastery;

where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars.

We ask you push back the horizons of our hopes,

and to push us in the future with strength, courage, hope and love.

- Sir Francis Drake, 1577

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