Came across this prayer today on an item which a girlfriend gave me a long time ago and thought it was worth sharing here, especially as we come in toward the finish of this challenge...I read it more as a poem than a prayer...it was written by Sir Francis Drake on the eve of his circumnavigation of the world in 1577 (there's a lot of stuff from various religions in this thread...thought adding this one wouldn't hurt either...I am definitely not a religious nut of any persuasion...we have way more than enough):
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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.
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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.
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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 the stars.
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We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
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