You're listening to the Water Into Wine podcast, hosted by Grace Valentine.

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another edition of the Water Into Wine podcast.

I'm your host, Grace Valentine.

And today I'm talking about basically that feeling when you're getting ready to head back

from Thanksgiving break to go back to college and you just hate it.

You are just so annoyed.

You don't want to look at Canvas.

You're anxious because you know you're going to come back to basically one more test week,

a little bit of a break, and then finals.

You're overwhelmed.

You wish you could just stay for Christmas break. And you're looking back on your semester and you're wondering, was there anything good that happened this semester? Like, why can't I just stay in my hometown? Why can't I just eat stuffing with my grandma 24-7? You feel like dating's already hard. You've made some mistakes. You drank too much, and yeah, you weigh another five

pounds from Thanksgiving, but you weigh another 10 pounds from this whole semester of college,

and you're just over it. You wish you could just be home or just be done with college.

And I love to talk about this topic because I felt this way, and everything I read online

when I was in college was like, college of the best years of your life. And the truth is I was making forever lifelong memories even when I couldn't see it. But at the same time, like it was hard. Loneliness is real. You can feel so overlooked. You can feel just. I actually was looking at my prayer journal from when I was in college and I read where I was like, it's honestly so sad. I said like, God, make me confidence in my looks. Like I feel really insecure next to all these beautiful girls. Honestly, I was like crying for like my past self. I'm like, I can't believe I used to care about those things to the point that it would ruin my week. But that's how it is in college. Like the guy you like takes another good of formal. You feel like devastated. You get a bad bad grade on this test you have a group project you don't do well on everything that is little can feel so heavy in college because there's just so much stress and there's so much chaos and so i know when you're in thanksgiving break even when your family annoys you even when it's hard even when your parents divorce still bugs you sometimes you're like can i just Sometimes you're like, can I just not go back to

college? Can I just not go back to everything that I have in college? And so I want to read this

passage to you. And it comes from Matthew 17. And what we see here is something called the

Transfiguration. And basically, it starts with six days, after six days, Jesus took with him,

Peter, James and John, the brother of james and led them up a high

mountain by themselves there he was transfigured before them his face shone like the sun and his clothes became

as white as a light just then he appeared before them moses and elijah talking of jesus

peter said to jesus lord is it it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up

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