What does it look like to build the most abundant, fun, wide open life possible in hopes that God also still answers my prayers?

How do you view singleness as a gift?

If you are pursuing God, I do not think you can miss what he has for you.

Why is marriage and idol?

And why in singleness do we lack contentment in the season that God has us in?

Scripture never said abundant life was for people who had everything they wanted because nobody

has everything they want. But what does that look like practically for you to wake up in the morning

and say, I'm going to make the most of today? I taught school for five years.

Teacher Annie, I would have loved to be in your class. I don't know that they learned anything,

but we had a ball.

Yeah. love to be in your class. I don't know that they learned anything, but we had a ball. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast. I'm your host, Madison

Pruitt Trout. And I am in the podcast studio with one of my dear friends, Annie Updown.

Hi friend. I can't believe this is actually your first time coming on, say true podcast. I didn't realize that until today. And I was like in my heart, I thought I'd already done it too. So we both thought if it happened. I feel like you've been on this podcast like five times because of just how much I love you. You live in Nashville, Tennessee. Yes. But you also live part-time in New York City.

Yeah, I have for the last two years.

The breaking news. just how much I love you. You live in Nashville, Tennessee. Yes. But you also live part-time in New York City.

Yeah, I have for the last two years. The breaking news, I'm packing it up this week. To just come here full-time? Yeah. So my friends who own my apartment in New York are selling it because they weren't living there. obviously I was living there and so they're selling it and because I'm going on tour this fall there's just a there was a real clear in July I kind of sat with the Lord and was like what do we do

next? And it just felt like, pack it up. But maybe, like, I don't have to let go of ever living in New York and Nashville again at same time or moving up there. But for the next season, it's getting packed up. I feel a lot of feelings. Honestly, I'm selfishly excited because maybe that means we can get that's right. They will actually be here. We can actually go on our walks. It has really messed my social life to live part time in each place. Honestly, but you're super and plugged into a local church here, which I love and respect. And then you, we were living very close when grand I were living in the apartments.

We were like four or five minutes away from each other. And we were like, we need to go on

all these walks. And then it never did. We never did. So we're going to make up for it. Our hearts were

right. We had really big hopes, high hopes, unmet expectations. That's right. Life happens.

We get it. But Annie is a bestselling author. She also has her own podcast called That Sounds Fun, which I've been on. Yes. It was fun. It was really good time. Thank you. You have a really great podcast. And you're going on a tour soon, which you just alluded to, I mentioned, called Live in Color. Live and in Color. Yeah. Yeah color. Live and in color. With Kane. You guys, I want to go to this. I think it's going to be so fun. I've never done 40 cities. So that is 10 weeks that I get on a bus Wednesday night. We do a show Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and we bus home Sunday night in four different cities. Bus home Sunday night, get here Monday morning, and then do it again.

Girl.

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