I keep meaning to read Gary Chapman’s book on the languages of love, and I took this quiz today. Of course, my preferred language was just as I suspected, and of course, Mike’s were completely different, again, as expected.
This is me…
I feel loved when…
The Five Love Languages
My Primary Love Language is Physical Touch
| My Detailed Results: | |
|---|---|
| Physical Touch: | 9 |
| Receiving Gifts: | 8 |
| Words of Affirmation: | 6 |
| Quality Time: | 6 |
| Acts of Service: | 1 |
This is Mike…
I feel loved when…
The Five Love Languages
My Primary Love Language is Quality Time
| My Detailed Results: | |
|---|---|
| Quality Time: | 12 |
| Physical Touch: | 9 |
| Words of Affirmation: | 5 |
| Acts of Service: | 3 |
| Receiving Gifts: | 1 |
How does one go about finding a new church? We’ve been here for 16 months and still haven’t found a church home. And we really need to be in a church, for a vast variety of reasons.
But we are, admittedly, at a complete loss as to how to find a church to attend. Mike and I both attended the Southern Baptist churches of our parents’ selection when we were children.
And then, in college, I’m not even sure my roommate and I even visited any other churches… we just went to one. It had a large college group, and I was nurtured spiritually like I hadn’t been before. Mike, on the other hand, was a confirmed church hopper in college. Now, he was somewhere every Sunday morning, but no where in particular.
When I moved to Louisiana, I selected my church there on less than thoughtful terms. The church I attended had a historic sanctuary full of huge, gorgeous stained glass windows. I was in a new state, alone for the first time ever, and sitting in those pews on Sunday mornings filled me with peace and contentment. The people were friendly, and I felt safe and secure there. And when Mike and I started dating, he started attending there.
We were married in that church and both of our children were dedicated there. Griff was baptized there, and Mike was ordained a deacon there. And it wasn’t the perfect church by any means. There were plenty of things that we didn’t agree with or prefer. But it was home.
And now we just have no clue about how to find a new home.
Filed under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (4)We are all still tired from the week, but we’re also still feeling some warm fuzzies from having Mandy, Josh, and Olivia with us, which is really nice.
I’ll post more later, but I have a couple of cute photos from the visit to share tonight.
This is Olivia, Griff and Eliza wearing their Mickey ears.
Olivia’s vocabulary is pretty much limitied to ‘mama,’ ‘dada,’ and ‘mmmm,’ but you could certainly read in her expression what she was thinking about Eliza at that moment.
It was such fun to watch the three of them playing together.
This is before we went trick or treating at Disney. Eliza’s Dorothy and Griff is, as Josh described him, a rock & roll elf.
Filed under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comment (0)We had a really wonderful time with Mandy, Josh, and Olivia, but we’re all still tired from the visit. We also had a really good appointment with the pediatric neurologist. He doesn’t feel like Griff’s got a neurological problem, which is super, but we still have some additional testing to do.
And now, I’m going to go rush everyone toward an early bedtime since I don’t feel so swell today. And in the end, it’s all about me. 
It’s an exciting day here in our family. Mandy, Josh, and Olivia are flying out mid-morning to come spend several days with us, and we are all just beside ourselves with anticipation. (Griff’s teacher emailed earlier this week to tell me that she was having trouble keeping him on task & I had to admit that it was pretty much a family-wide affliction this week.)
Griff and Mike are both off tomorrow, and we’re keeping Griff out of school on Monday (partially for his doctor’s appointment and partially because I think life’s too short to have perfect attendance). I’ve taken off work, and this is the longest I’ve been off since I started this job. I feel just full of freedom!
Olivia, of course, had to scare us by getting sick, but she seems well enough to travel, so we’re all praying for safe flights and a happy baby.
While I’m cleaning the house and doing laundry this morning, I’m praying, too, for my friend, LeeAnn, and her family. As it turns out, her son is being tested today for dysgraphia, the very condition that tipped Griff’s teachers to the possibility of him having something greater. My prayer for them is that the day go easily and that they get helpful news that will make things easier for their sweet little boy.
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