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Prayer of Sir Francis Drake

 Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves,

When our dreams have come true
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.
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.

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