Rest Easy

One more mile 'til I lay rest.
I have put myself through this rigid test.
But the mile has never ended no distance has been gained.
I do not see greatness I wanted to obtain.
Where is my embrace from the race that I have run?
I have kept a steady pace but still I have not won.

Rest easy, have no fear.
I love you perfectly; perfect love drives out fear.
I'll take your burden; you take my grace.
Rest easy in my embrace.

I am such a sinner, I fear my evil ways.
I fear my imperfection, I fear my final days.
I just want to take control and snap this rusty chain,
drop my heavy burden it seems to be in vain.

Rest easy, have no fear.
I love you perfectly; perfect love drives out fear.
I'll take your burden; you take my grace.
Rest easy in my embrace.

I am not a bold man, even though I want to be.
I am just a dreamer with a timid history.
Scared of confrontations, I fume all through the night.
The world has its hold on me, and I just want to fly.
The sky, the sky is open wide.
But I can't fly 'til I step aside

Rest easy, have no fear.
I love you perfectly; perfect love drives out fear.
I'll take your burden; you take my grace.
Rest easy in my embrace.

Rest easy, rest easy...rest easy, in my embrace
Rest easy.

-Audio Adrenaline

(Pretty) Urgent Prayer Requests: July 2011

Hey friends! Couple of (pretty) urgent prayer requests like to share with you Re: our roles in the coffeehouse/house church ministry in Poland:

1.) COPENHAGEN! We are leading the fundraising efforts to take 12+ volunteers and staff members from our Poznań and Kraków locations to the 2011 Nordic Barista Cup coffee summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Attending this conference is an AWESOME opportunity -one God used to work genuine educational and relational miracles in the lives of our staff members last year- but it's also a fairly expensive one. Please pray that God will provide the necessary funds in time...he always has before, and we're trusting him to do it again! :)

2.) ROASTING! It's possible that a church in States will be sponsoring the purchase of a small, commercial coffee roaster to serve all three Sweet Surrender shops in Poland (and possibly interested Nazarene churches in the States). Many things have to fall into place before that can happen, but among the most important concerns is Brittany's need to find a master coffee roaster in Kraków that is willing to grant her a crash-course apprenticeship this summer and fall. Please pray that God's will might be done in this situation, and in his time!

Thanks so much for you prayers and support...we could have never made it this far without you!

Aaron & Brit

The Love of God

"The Love of God is greater far

than any tongue or pen can ever tell.

It goes beyond the highest star,

and reaches to the lowest hell.

"The guilty pair, bowed down with care,

God gave his Son to win.

The erring child he reconciled,

and saved him from his sin.

"Could we with ink the ocean fill,

and were the skies of parchment made.

Were every stalk on earth a quill,

and every man a scribe by trade.

"To write the love of God above,

would drain the ocean dry.

Nor could the scroll contain the whole,

if stretched from sky to sky."

-Rabbi Mayer & Frederick H. Lehman