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.

attributed - Sir Francis Drake -1577

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter...Exodus 20:9-10NKJV

God knows us so well. He can see the store owner reading this verse and thinking; "Somebody needs to work that day. If I can’t, my son will." So God says, Nor your son. "Then my daughter will." Nor your daughter.... "I guess I ll have to send my cow to run the store, or maybe I will find some stranger to help me." No God says. One day of the week you will say no to work and yes to worship. You will slow and sit down and lie down and rest.

Still we object..."What about my grades?" "I’ve got my sales quota." We offer up one reason after another, but God silences them all with a poignant reminder; " In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, all that is in them, and rested the seventh day." God’s message is plain; "If creation didn’t crash when I rested, it won’t crash when you do."

Repeat these words after me; It is not my job to run the world.

From - Grace for the Moment by Max Lucado
 

No one has to remind you of the high cost of anxiety. (But I will anyway.) Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry is a compound of two greek words, merizo (to divide) and nous (the mind). Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrows problems. Part of your mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet.  The result is half-minded living.

Thats not the only result. Worrying is not a disease, but it causes diseases. It has been connected to high blood pressure, heart trouble, blindness, migrane headaches, thyroid malfunctions and a host of stomach disorders.

Anxiety is an expensive habit. Of course, it might be worth the cost if it worked.  But it doesnt. Our frets are futile. Worry has never brightened a day, solved a problem or cured a disease.

From Traveling Light By Max Lucado

I suspect the most consistent thing about life has to be its inconsistency...
Its this eerie inconsistency that keeps all of us, to one degree or another, living life on the edge of our chairs.
Yet, it was in this inconsistency that God had his finest hour. Never did the obscene come so close to the holy as it did on Calvary. Never did the good in the world so intertwine with the bad as it did on the cross...
God on a cross. Humanity at its worst. Divinity at its best....
God is not stumped by an evil world. He doesn't gasp in amazement at the depth of our faith or the depth of our failures. He knows the condition of the world ...and loves it just the same. For just when we find a place where God would never be (like on a cross), we look again and there he is, in the flesh.

From "Grace For The Moment" - By Max Lucado - Originally in "No Wonder They Call Him Savior"