Traditional Prayers
Disturb Us, Lord (Prayer of Sir Francis Drake)
A prayer of daring long associated with Sir Francis Drake and the voyage of 1577, though its present English form belongs to the twentieth-century Anglican devotional tradition.
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well 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 wider 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 into the future in strength, courage, hope and love. Amen.
Anglican devotional tradition, attributed to Sir Francis Drake
About the prayer
It is prayed at commissionings, graduations, and the start of anything risky.
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