Disturbed!

Blog Post by Wendy Kauffman
I ran across this prayer that Sir Francis Drake wrote...

"Disturb us, Lord, when

We are too pleased with ourselves,When our dreams  have come true

Because we 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,

We ask you to push back

The horizons of our hopes;

And to push back the future

In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,Who is Jesus Christ."

As I was reading this I thought to myself, well I think I am pretty Disturbed already. Most everyone I know thinks that I am pretty well crazy and would probably say that I am very disturbed! So I am just writing this blog to say that you should probably watch out then, because I am going to ask God to disturb me some more. I am going to keep asking Him to help me push the borders and boundaries of how I show love to others. I am going to ask him to help me dare more, and dream bigger and take bigger risks by sailing a little more off shore.

What about you? What do you think will happen if you ask God to push back the horizon of your hopes and your future? What do you think He will do?