Three conferences at All Nations Christian College (Refresh for Mission; CMS Partners in Mission; Communications) have left us with many reflections and new ideas for our future. As we come away from our 'home' for two weeks (in the old servants quarters on the top floor) a prayer of a fellow Devonian, Sir Francis Drake, has travelled with us from the conferences:
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.
2 comments:
Very nostalgic to think of you at All Nations! Love the Drake prayer: very salutary.
hadnt seen the Drake prayer before very thought provoking. The conference centre looks lovely You were remembered in prayers at church Hope all is working out for you and that you are feeling better Jane :)
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