is it poetry day?

sent to me from my dear friend len, who was also my bible instructor:

Morning Prayer:

Disturb us, Lord, when
we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
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 storm 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 in the future,
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our
Captain, who is Jesus Christ.

Amen.

~~Sir Francis Drake