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

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another edition of the Water Into Wine podcast.

I'm your host, Grace Valentine.

And today I have my fun friend, my producer, Victoria, on the podcast. I'm your host, Grace Valentine. And today I have my fun friend, my producer,

Victoria on the podcast. Hello everyone. So excited to be here. I'm so excited you here.

Victoria is always my favorite person to chirp with. Even before we doing the podcast, we were

just yapping. And it had to be very clear like, wait, let's keep this with the podcast.

Yeah. So Victoria, how's keep this with the podcast. Yeah.

Um, so Victoria, how's your summer been?

It's been so good.

I have just been so busy.

I've been outside playing pickleball at the pool.

Yeah, I love pickleball.

And yeah, it's just been fun.

I really haven't went anywhere. I'm going to Alabama tomorrow, actually. Ooh, Alabama, where you go in Birmingham home? Yeah, I'm going home. Visit my mom. And a few friends are coming. She's doing to make us like a homemade Alabama meals. What's the Alabama meal? Fried chicken. Oh, I love that. I actually, for Easter, I fried my own chicken. I did chicken and waffles from my grandma, my cousin.

And I was proud of myself.

I felt like a true Southern girl. That sounds amazing. But yeah, that's what we're doing. Yeah, so fun. Well, I just got back from Italy. I hate to brag. No, literally. Alabama, Italy. Wow. No, no, no. I now I have to I'm going to which I'm excited a bachelor this weekend for my brother's fiance in Virginia and we're going to a winery but I'm like oh no like it's it's giving me so fun but in my head I'm like the wine in Italy was so good oh yeah yeah can't compare can't compare but yeah so that was so fun I had two weddings back to back so six days wedding festivities. I had a wedding and my boyfriend had a wedding and each had a party. And so was the last wedding you've been to our friend AG's, would you say? Yes. Yeah. That was such a fun wanting too. It was so fun. I love wedding season. Yeah. I know it as like when you're not in engagement or if you're single, it can easily feel

annoying. Because I will say as a single girl and it was like, oh, I don't have a date.

And I'm like, who do I sit by? So many more things go in your head. But even when I'd get there, I'd get like scared to go. Then I'd be like, wait, this is so fun. Like we get to celebrate love. we're going to celebrate? No, it's so fun.

You got to get, you got to, when you're single, you got to get out of your own way at a wedding

because weddings, weddings's so fun. You got to get, you got to, when you're single, you got to get out of your own way at a wedding because weddings are so fun and it's a time to celebrate your friends. And when you're in the good headspace, it's so much fun. It is like you have to prepare your heart and your head to be in that headspace. 100%. Because once again, the enemy will always try to make something that God's using to bless you and to bring joy to be something that you end up hating. Loathing and want to avoid. He's going to try to like get in your thoughts. And so I look back in a younger me every now and I'm going to do that. But then it's so important to it's not like fake a teammate because I think sometimes we also say that. Yeah. But it is important to have the perspective you wish you had 100% and start saying that out loud yeah you know what I'm so happy for them one day I'm gonna get married I still have help like God has told me this God has promises the desire absolutely just because she has her blessing doesn't mean that's not mine and I even at weddings it's so cool you're like that is so cool my guy. You know? Yeah, right. So. Why are you jealous of this person? They found their person. That is not your person. You want to be excited for your person, you know? Oh, completely. And you'll, you often feel behind, but when you get to, instead of feeling behind, you should be so focused in celebrating them that you don't even think about where you are in life. literally thinking about Connor and AG, that's the last wedding me and Grace went to I am like they are so perfect for each other and there's like

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