Sir Frances Drake, the first Englishman to navigate the globe spoke these words in prayer:
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst for the waters of 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 stars.
We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push us in the future
In strength, courage, hope and love.
Sir Francis Drake, December 1577
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6 comments:
Oh, I do indeed love this. Thanks.
I never knew he was a poet. A poet-pirate. I like it.
if ever a quote deserved to be written on a doorframe, this one does.
i love that we can always count on Shannon to post something beautiful.
who knew that poet pirates could pray so beautifully? :)
i'm glad i can count on you three to comment on the things i post!
I think I need to tattoo this to my arm and read it every day.
[Pause] Ok, I'm not going to LITERALLY tattoo it... More like read/pray it often.
Yes. That's exactly what I meant. ;)
That'd be a lot of ink (of course you'd have to use some kind of calligraphic cursive); it could easily swallow an entire arm. Yeah, a doorframe's probably more practical...
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