Here's Creek, how we doing?

It's good to be with you guys this morning.

My name is Grant.

If we have a Metschette, I get to serve here at this body on staff here, and it is just a privilege.

So my wife and I, we moved to Waco a little over a year ago, and it was a week after we had

gotten married, and we really just kind of picked up our lives, moved here to Waco.

And so we've started a family and started our marriage on this property here at Harris Creek.

And I'm just so thankful.

I just want to say thank you right off the bat for everybody in this church and the leadership here,

because God has done so much in my life through this year.

And I'm sure if you're married, you know that the first year of marriage is a lot, a lot of feels, man. You're learning a lot of new things for the first time. And so thank you just to Harris Creek for everything that you've just been for me and my wife. One of the biggest blessings for us is our newly married life group. And so last Tuesday, we got together and we're going through a book right now and it's

called The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller.

Phenomenal book.

And one of the chapters that really stuck out to us was on love languages.

And I don't know if you know this, but there's probably five or six love languages.

And what it teaches you is that how you like to

receive love is often how you like to extend love. It's really important in marriage that I

realized I was not doing a good job on, and it just reminded me about a conversation with my wife.

And so if you've ever interacted with my wife, Maddie, she can be stern. I mean, she has this kind of passionate sternness to her. And I got the text that no husband wants to get, and it's, can we talk? And no emojis, no nothing, just kind of the period. Can we talk? And I'm like, all right, what happened? What did I do? I'm kind of going through my mind. And I show up and she looks at me and just the sweetest face, she goes, Grant, I'm so thankful for all the notes you give me. And at this point, my love language is words of affirmation. So I'm like, yes, you know, fill my tank. How good am I doing? And a little backstory, I like love to notes. And I feel like I can kind of step into this like Shakespeare, kind of Bruno Mars, like I'll

catch a grenade, I'll step in front of the train.

I love it.

I feel alive because I love to receive words.

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