Recently, I heard my school president open a meeting with a prayer written by Sir Francis Drake in 1577. I accessed a copy of the prayer here. In the prayer, I am reminded of a line from Pat Bassett’s TEDx St. George School talk (upcoming in post #56), which paraphrased basically communicated – Parents, we should seek teachers for our children who are experimenters. And earlier in the talk he stated, “Be an advocate for your children and your schools to be innovative.”
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,
To venture on wilder 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 back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.
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