{"id":665,"date":"2010-12-28T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2013-04-29T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T02:54:12","slug":"disturb-us-lord-by-sir-francis-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/disturb-us-lord-by-sir-francis-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturb Us, Lord ~by Sir Francis Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disturb Us, Lord<br \/>\nby Sir Francis Drake<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDisturb us, Lord, when<br \/>\nWe are too well pleased with ourselves,<br \/>\nWhen our dreams have come true<br \/>\nBecause we have dreamed too little,<br \/>\nWhen we arrived safely<br \/>\nBecause we sailed too close to the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Disturb us, Lord, when<br \/>\nWith the abundance of things we possess<br \/>\nWe have lost our thirst<br \/>\nFor the waters of life;<br \/>\nHaving fallen in love with life,<br \/>\nWe have ceased to dream of eternity<br \/>\nAnd in our efforts to build a new earth,<br \/>\nWe have allowed our vision<br \/>\nOf the new Heaven to dim.<\/p>\n<p>Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,<br \/>\nTo venture on wider seas<br \/>\nWhere storms will show your mastery;<br \/>\nWhere losing sight of land,<br \/>\nWe shall find the stars.<\/p>\n<p>We ask You to push back<br \/>\nThe horizons of our hopes;<br \/>\nAnd to push into the future<br \/>\nIn strength, courage, hope, and love.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Francis Drake (1577)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disturb Us, Lord by Sir Francis Drake Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we have 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}