Week Twenty Five
“ChaZOwn, prounced khaw-ZONE from the Hebrew, meaning a dream, revelation or vision”
Craig Groeschell
I heard Craig Groeschell speak this morning on the meaning of the word Chazown, discovering your own vision, purpose in life, and writing my Epitaph, i.e., “The thing that was most important to me, etc” His lecture and his book reminded me of Stephen Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Hightly Effective People. Many things stood out to me but nothing more than this quote:
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 arrive 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 horizon of our hopes, 
and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. 
This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. â€
― Francis Drake
when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, 

when we arrive 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 horizon of our hopes, 
and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. 
This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. â€
― Francis Drake
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