Thursday, September 10, 2009

Disturb me Lord

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.
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 into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

~Sir Francis Drake

2 comments:

katiegfromtennessee said...

I like how this poem rebukes pride and calls us to trust Him to leave the familiar and the comfortable as He leads us...

Blessings Miss Bethany:)

katiegfromtennessee

katiegfromtennessee said...

Hey Bethany:) Your sweet comments have blessed me today:) I haven't actually read that book, I got the God moment idea from Beth Moore's Believing God book where she talks about "Godstops" Who wrote the God Moment Principle, I have not heard of it till now??

katiegfromtennessee