Somehow, when they're away at college, they come home different, more grown up, I guess, now having to wrestle with different life issues, and, learn how to get along with someone besides their brother or sister.
College kids are funny.
They want you to believe they're quite independent and grown up, but, they also still want a home cooked meal, to sleep in their own bed, a fire in the fire place, all those things which draw them home rather than driving them away. We're like that too. Trying to live independently of Him is exactly what we don't need. It's a sad thing when we don't know the Lord, for then, we have no home to which to return. So many people are in that predicament.