{"id":366,"date":"2007-07-07T21:29:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-10-09T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T02:32:17","slug":"cool-quote-disturb-us-o-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/cool-quote-disturb-us-o-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"COOL QUOTE; Disturb Us, O Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-367\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/image-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 173px) 85vw, 173px\" \/>Disturb us, O Lord<\/span><br \/>\nwhen we are too well-pleased<br \/>\nwith ourselves;<br \/>\nwhen our dreams have come true<br \/>\nbecause we dreamed too little;<br \/>\nwhen we have arrived in safety<br \/>\nbecause we sailed too close to the shore.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Disturb us, O Lord<\/span><br \/>\nwhen with the abundance of<br \/>\nthings possessed, we lose our thirst<br \/>\nfor the water of life;<br \/>\nwhen, having fallen in love with time,<br \/>\nwe have ceased to dream of Eternity;<br \/>\nand our efforts to build a new earth<br \/>\nhave allowed Your vision for<br \/>\nthe New Heaven to grow dim.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stir us, O Lord<\/span><br \/>\nto dare more boldly,<br \/>\nto venture on wider seas,<br \/>\nwhere storms shall show Thy Mastery,<br \/>\nwhere, losing sight of land,<br \/>\nwe shall find the stars.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of Him<br \/>\nwho pushed back the horizons<br \/>\nof our hopes and invited<br \/>\nthe brave to follow Him.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Amen<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>~~ Sir Francis Drake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 have arrived in safety because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O Lord when with the abundance of things possessed, we lose our thirst for the water of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/cool-quote-disturb-us-o-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COOL QUOTE; Disturb Us, O Lord&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}