Disturb Us, Lord

I found the following prayer going through some old files and Facebook postings. Given the light of entering into the celebration of the Paschal Triduum, I thought that it was appropriate to share.

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Prayer of Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century

(This prayer was found in his ship's diary, written on the eve of one of his great adventures:)

Disturb us, Lord, ...when we are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, 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 in the future In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,
who is Jesus Christ.

Amen


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Enjoy the journey . . .