When gratitude feels complicated. When faith feels fragile. When we're carrying more than we know how to say.
Songs for the Valley is an intimate evening of stories, Scripture, music, and reflection created for those seasons.
Author Amber Ginter Johnson and singer-songwriter Lauren Toney come together for an evening that moves through the honest rhythms of faith: lament, praise, and thanks.
An intimate evening of stories, song, and hope with author and speaker Amber Ginter Johnson and singer-songwriter Lauren Toney. Through honest stories, meaningful words, and soul-stirring music, they’ll create a space for reflection, connection, and hope. Featuring selections from Psalms in the Dark, this special evening invites you to slow down, breathe deep, and make room for whatever season you find yourself in.
Come expecting heartfelt stories, beautiful music, quiet reflection, and a reminder that even in the valley, there are still songs to sing.
Psalms in the Dark is where Songs for the Valley began.
Across 100 devotional reflections, Amber explores the honest prayers, questions, grief, hope, praise, and gratitude found throughout the Psalms.
The book doesn't ask us to rush through the hard parts.
It gives us language for them.
Songs for the Valley brings that same heart into a shared, live experience through storytelling, music, reflection, and hope.
While the evening currently features selections from Psalms in the Dark, Songs for the Valley is designed to grow beyond a single book—continuing to make space for new stories, songs, and seasons of life.
Stories that tell the truth.
Songs that meet you where you are.
Space to breathe.
Hope that lingers.
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Songs for the Valley is a space for stories, music, reflection, and rest—a chance to step away from the noise of everyday life without pretending that real life doesn't exist.
Amber shares personal stories and selections from Psalms in the Dark, her collection of 100 devotional reflections through the Psalms. Lauren brings those stories to life through music, including original songs created for the evening.
Together, they move through the honest rhythms of faith:
LAMENT.
We tell the truth about what hurts.
PRAISE.
We look for God in the middle of it.
THANKS.
We notice what is still good, beautiful, and worth receiving.
Along the way, there is room to pause, reflect, journal, pray, laugh, or simply listen.
This isn't a concert.
It isn't a book reading.
And it isn't a night of easy answers.
It's an invitation to slow down, be honest, and remember that God meets us in the valleys, too.
It's for the person carrying something they don't know how to name.
It's for the exhausted and the hopeful, the grieving and the grateful.
It's for the person who loves Jesus but is tired of pretending everything is okay.
It's for the person in a season of waiting, wondering, or becoming.
It's for the person who needs permission to lament—and the person who needs to remember how to praise.
It's for those who have questions, those who have faith, and those who aren't quite sure what they believe anymore.
It's for anyone who could use a little more beauty, a little more honesty, and a little more hope.
And we think it might just be for you, too.
Amber Ginter Johnson
Amber Ginter Johnson is an author and speaker passionate about creating space for honest conversations about faith, mental health, suffering, hope, and the complicated realities of being human.
Her book, Psalms in the Dark, is a collection of 100 devotional reflections that explore what it looks like to bring our whole selves to God, even in the seasons when faith feels hard.
Amber's work reminds people that they don't have to have the right words, the perfect faith, or everything figured out to meet God exactly where they are.
Lauren Toney
Lauren Toney is a singer-songwriter whose music creates space for honesty, reflection, and hope.
A longtime friend and creative collaborator of Amber's, Lauren brings a musical voice to the stories and themes at the heart of Psalms in the Dark.
Together, Amber and Lauren create an evening where words and music meet, and where there's room for people to simply be human together.
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a 100-day devotional for the seasons when faith feels hard, God feels distant, or you're carrying more than you know how to name.
Through lament, thanksgiving, and praise, you'll learn that you don't have to hide your pain from God to have faith.
in the Dark
Psalms
When you don't know what to pray, the Psalms give you words.