Prayer Offered for July 17, 2017

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,
And having fallen [too much] in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity….

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.

We ask You to push back the horizons of our hopes,
And to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love.—AMEN.

 ^{(Attributed to  Sir Francis Drake.)}