I read this quote and new I had to share it.

"I am getting desperately afraid of going to heaven for I have had the vision of the shame I shall suffer as I get my first glimpse of the Lord Jesus; His majesty, power and marvelous love for me, who treated Him so meanly and shabbily on earth, and acted as though I did Him a favour in serving Him! No wonder God shall have to wipe away the tears off all faces, for we shall be broken-hearted when we see the depth of His love and the shallowness of ours."

C.T. Studd

I don't know what else to say.

Robert

West Wing

I woke up this morning just in time to hear Dana Jacobson apologise to Mike and Mike about her comments last week, for those of you who haven't heard, Google Dana Jacobson and you will find out. She has apologised to Notre Dame and Mike and Mike but I didn't hear any apology about her comments about Jesus. I've sent an e-mail but not heard word one from ESPN.
Anyway, I've decided not to watch ESPN First Take anymore and I started watching West Wing on Bravo. What a good show that used to be, the acting and writing were really good. Even if they are a bunch of liberals, hey it was on network TV. Right there on my screen was Rob Lowe talking about some idea he had and I started to wonder why he wanted to leave that show. Don't actors wait a lifetime to get a role that is popular and lucrative? And that led me to Arizona, doesn't it always?
If you read the last entry you know what I'm talking about. If you didn't read it I'm not going to repeat myself, much. Every day I feel the Lord leading me there and I can't wait 'till I'm there not only in spirit but in body too. Tory, I'm not sure when we will be there but I'm sure we will be there.
Anyway maybe Rob Lowe had his Arizona, who knows.

Globe a week later

It's been a week since we went to Arizona with Daun Slauson. Liz has been asking me to post something. I've been hesitant as I'm not sure how to put my feelings down. I mean, I can tell you about a girl I met at the childrens home on the rez. (that's reservation for those of you who didn't know) We took about a half hour to put a Spongs Bob puzzle together. She has "Downs Syndrome" and that was the most amazing half hour I have spent in a long time. I can tell you about the "Prayer Walk" we had. We went to different neighborhoods and to a house that was being built after a family's trailer was burned down. We prayed at all of these places and my heart, once again broke for the Apache people. We spoke with Dale and Diana about taking a group of Aboriginal kids from Australia to Arizona and they said they also wanted to take a group of Apache kids to Australia. Exciting to say the least.
I mean I can tell you what we did, but I don't have the words to tell you how I felt.
Maybe these questions I have will help you to understand:
Why me?
Why do I hurt so much when I think of these people?
There is so much to do. What can I do?
This week I came across two quotes from William Booth. He started the Salvation Army.
“Not called,” you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin.
Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and entreat their brothers and sisters not to come there.
Then look Christ in the face- whose mercy you have professed to obey- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.”
The second one is:
"While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!"
That's why me!

Robert

Brizzy in Globe

I can't tell you how excited we are!
Do you want to hear some great news?
This weekend Liz and I are taking Daun Slauson (Knott Avenue's missionary in Australia) to Globe and the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Why you ask? (this is where you say "Why?") The idea is to link not only our missionaries together but the Aboriginal and Apache people together. We aren't sure what that will look like, but we know it will be awesome.
I know God wants us all to be one "family" and this would be a good first step.
I can't tell you how excited we are to spend some time with the staff at A.R.M. Please pray that doors of cooperation between these two nations will be opened.
I can't tell you how excited we are!

Robert and Liz Crews

New Year's Resolutions

It's already 2008. Where did the time go?
As I sit here and contemplate the new year. I wonder what God has in store for me. Will I like it? Probably. Will I embrace it? Probably not. The point is I will hear from God. I just have to listen.

Having said that, It's resolution time. Let me start off by saying I hate resolutions. You start off January with the best of intentions and end the year an utter failure. These "resolutions" aren't something we do on a regular basis. Hence the whole resolution thing.
For me I want to be consistent in my prayer life. Notice I didn't say more consistent, if I were consistent at all I wouldn't be talking about it. I want to make sure I have a set quiet time and keep that time.

As I look at these I realize these aren't resolutions. These are the things that I want in order to draw closer to God. These can't be resolutions.
I hate "resolutions."

So my "resolution" for 2008 is: I resolve not to have any resolutions this year!

Look at this it's only January 3rd and I'm already a failure.
Thanks 2008.