I would like to share a short poem I received from a friend for the new year:
A PRAYER FOR DISTURBANCEMay God give us all guidance to know what to do, and the strength to do it, in this new year! God bless you!
Disturb us, O Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrived in safety because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, O Lord, when with the abundance of the things we possess we have lost our thirst for the water of life; when having fallen in love with time we have ceased to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build the new earth have allowed our vision of the new heaven to grow dim.
Stir us, O Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas when storms shall show Thy mastery, where losing sight of land we shall find the stars. In the name of Him who pushed back the horizons of our hopes and invited the brave to follow Him.
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