A long-time friend shared part of this with me last week. I was intrigued and Googled for the entire prayer. I pray it blesses, encourages and challenges you as it has me. Perhaps I’ve been sailing too closely to the shore. Disturb me, Lord. May my dreams and vision be completely yielded to only Your perfect will and Your dreams for me.
Prayer of Sir Francis Drake
(written in 1577)
Disturb us, Lord, when
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.
“In his heart a man plans his course,
but the LORD determines his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9
“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’
declares the LORD,
‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.'”
Jeremiah 29:11