"Disturb us, O Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves. When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we have arrived in safety because we sailed to close to the shore.
Disturb us, O Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the Water of Life. When having fallen in love with time, we cease to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision for heaven to grow dim.
Stir us, O Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wilder seas, where storms shall show Thy Mastery, whe losing sight of land we shall find the stars.
In the name of Him who pushed back the horizons of our hopes and invited the brave to follow Him.
Amen."
-A prayer from Sir Francis Drake, 1577
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