From Russia With Love

Yes...I changed the background and title of my blog. The title is actually the name of an old James Bond movie (I feel like I should get some cool points for knowing this) and I liked the city lights (although I doubt that's a picture of Moscow...but it could be and that's what matters). It does really annoy me, though, how they make all my titles into lowercase letters when I went through the trouble to capitalize them correctly (and I think things should be capitalized correctly, but oh well I guess it's trendier not to) but I can't figure out how to change it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new look. I feel like it's more sophisticated and since I do live in one of the biggest cities in the world and I'm now a sophisticated big city girl (I have the skinny jeans and Euro bangs to prove it), it seems appropriate.

This morning at church, Daniel Fisher preached and for the benediction prayed a prayer from the explorer Sir Francis Drake and I wanted to share it with you:

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 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.