When she was a teenager, Lauren Dagle contracted a debilitating virus which kept her out of school for nearly two years.

It was during that time, though, that Lauren says the Lord began to just pour in passion for music and writing songs.

That passion has driven Lauren to create music that unabashedly testifies of Christ and reminds all who listen of their identity as children of God.

A native of Louisiana, Lauren Dagle is a two-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter.

Her third studio album, Look Up Child, debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart.

The album extended far beyond the Christian world and achieved incredible crossover success.

This Christmas, Lauren is the featured guest for BYU TV's Christmas Under the Stars.

This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In, the gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Jones and I am honored to have Lauren Dagle on the line with me today. Lauren, welcome.

Thank you, Morgan. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Well, this is such a treat for me. I have to tell you, I am a huge fan. I actually had tickets to see you in Salt Lake and it got canceled.

And so this is a makeup for that for me.

Oh, I'm telling you, I'm so ready. I'm so ready to be doing music again.

And it's funny the other day I was talking with someone. They're like, when are the shows coming back? When is that going to start?

I'm like, your guess is as good as mine. But currently they're saying in the fall.

And I just, I'm telling you, I didn't realize, like when we first took a couple of months away, I thought, okay, this is going to be all right.

We're going to get to just kind of refresh. And then when we come back to the shows, we'll be hitting the ground running.

And then it's been quite some time. And now I'm like, okay, I am chomping at the bit.

And it's so ready to get back on the road. You know how a lot of times you, I don't know if you're, if you're familiar with this, or if it's just me, because it could very well just be me.

And when there's a long enough time, you start to question, is this what I'm supposed to be doing? Am I supposed to be doing something else?

And this is like the great cause in life to make me question it. And so I, I think I started off like, okay, cool. This will just be like rest.

And I was like, I really missed it. And then I was like, maybe this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. And then it was like, okay, I didn't think that I was going to miss it as much as I missed it.

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