10/03/2025
"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 arrive safely, because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when the abundance of things we possess have caused us to lose our thirst for the waters of life and to fall in love with life. We have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts started 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, when storms will show your majesty when losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us ahead in future in strength, courage, hope and love. Amen.
-Sir Francis Drake
