Tasha Layton shared an important message about God’s grace in her new song, “Meet Me in the Valley (I Surrender All).”
“You can’t see grace for what it is // until you need it most,” she sings in a recent Instagram video. “You don’t know what you really have // until you lose it all // I’ve seen Your goodness // in the best, the worst, the joy, the hurt // every loss and every win // so I’m calling out again.”
The song was released along with a documentary of the same name, which shows how a camping trip to Death Valley inspired Layton’s latest song.
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“I think we’re all either exiting a valley, in a valley or heading into a valley. That’s just life,” she told CCM Magazine. “I really needed to get away and hear from the Lord because I felt like some pieces were missing…I was like, how do I help people walk through their own valleys?”
Layton continued, “I spent three days camping out and fasting alone at the bottom of Death Valley…there’s a reason they call it Death Valley. There is nothing there. I mean, no water source. Nothing to eat. I mean, it is literal desert.”
“I did not anticipate some of the things that I would encounter there. I think the fear alone was pretty overwhelming,” she said of her time in Death Valley. “As I looked out in this valley…I couldn’t see anything for miles and miles.”
Layton shared that her “prayer” for what listeners get out of the song is “that people will come away inspired to get with God…to take time to sort through, like, what do I need to acknowledge? What do I need to heal from? If this is where the broken things are brought to life, then lead me through the wilderness, but don’t leave my side.”
In a statement given to the Gospel Music Association, Layton added, “For the last year or so, whenever I prayed, I kept hearing God say, ‘Get low.’ To me, that meant humbly bringing my offering, entering His presence with humility, and being willing to lay anything down if He asked me to. Then came the song ‘Meet Me in the Valley,’ and the connection could not have been clearer.”
“In that moment, I felt compelled to get low once again, so I made the decision to go to Death Valley to reflect on my past and consider my future. What God did there was astounding, and He met me there,” she continued.
MEET ME IN THE VALLEY is currently available to watch on YouTube.
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