Disturb Us, Lord
"Launch
out into the deep..." ~Luke 5: 4
Disturb us,
Lord, when
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
us into the future
In strength,
courage, hope, and love.
This we ask
in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus
Christ.
Sir Francis Drake, 1557,
before departing from Portsmouth, England, to circumnavigate the globe.
