Valentine’s Language

February 14, 2005 General

My wife’s love language is “acts of service.” She likes it when I do the dishes, help clean the house, etc. I’ve revealed this little intimate thought before in Wineskins . . .

So I asked Jill yesterday, what do you want for V Day? Chocolates? Big heart shaped. No. Okay, how about some pretty roses? No. She always asks how much they cost. She’s our family CFO, why would she not ask?

Since her language is “acts of service” (see Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages), I’m going to do something where I don’t have to “say” anything and not sweat cleaning the house this time either: a gift certificate for several full house cleanings from “Domestic Angels,” a house cleaning service in Nashville. I know, I know, some wives get this on a regular basis, but that’s just not our approach, since we work on it together with our three kids as one of our chores. So this will be something special . . . and hey, it combines “gift giving” with “acts of service.”

Greg Taylor

My wife, Jill, and I have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. We live in Broken Arrow and I preach for The Journey: a New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa (www.thejourneychurch.faith). I have a B.A. in Journalism and an M.Div. from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. Before coming to Tulsa, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, where I worked with The Zoe Group and Wineskins Magazine. From 1994-2001 we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where we worked with a church planting team, an experience that forever changed our lives. With Randy Harris, I co-authored Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount and you can learn about other books I've written at my web site, www.gregtaylor.org. My most recent book co-authored with Randy is Daring Faith: Meeting Jesus in the Book of John.

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4 Responses

  1. David U says:
    February 14, 2005 at 9:41 am

    Way to go Greg! Maybe I can find some folks like that around Searcy to come to our house and clean and act like it was original with me! 🙂 I owe you one, brother.

    Imitation is the greatest compliment of all, right?

    Have a wonderful day with your Sweetheart!

    DU

  2. DJG says:
    February 14, 2005 at 4:04 pm

    This would be a gift I would LOVE!!! Great ideal!

  3. Clarissa says:
    February 15, 2005 at 12:22 am

    We’re going through that book with our lifegroup right now … good stuff. When we drew assignments, though, I drew acts of service, and it was really challenging for me to find new ways to serve Rob. (He drew gift giving, and delivered beautifully.)

  4. Charlotte Taylor says:
    February 18, 2005 at 9:59 am

    Hey, Greg!
    I finally made it to blog status!! But I am a little nervous – does that surprise you??
    But wanted to tell you that you are definitely on the right track. One of the memories I have permanently engrained is when you kids were little – I went to a shower or something like that and when I came back Dad had cleaned the house. Thanks for writing and for getting me hooked up to the blogging world. Love, Mom

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