Prayer by Sir Francis Drake

I keep coming back to this poem. Prayer. May it encourage you as it does me. All the way from the 16th century. Sir Francis Drake. ⚓️🔭🌊 . “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. ... Read more