“You Sought Me" Original Hymn (Love, Identity, Calling)
“You Sought Me" Original Hymn (Love, Identity, Calling)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the Wandering Heart bundle for Lent 2024, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.
“You Sought Me”
Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR ("The Glory of These Forty Days")
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: Joseph Klug (1543)
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PDF sheet music with four-part harmony
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Lyrics to copy and paste for bulletins and screens
Lyrics:
You Sought Me
Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR ("The Glory of These Forty Days")
Text: Anna Strickland, 2024
Music: Joseph Klug (1543)
My bones and head were bent down low
When you approached me on your own
You sought me out and called my name
My life would never be the same
A chance encounter by the lake
I thought this must be some mistake
That someone wrapped in holiness
Would willingly embrace this mess
I tried to tell you, "Leave me be—
I’m not sure what you see in me.”
And yet you chose my net to fill
With all my faults you call me still
When I begin to doubt my worth
Remind me I was formed from earth
The very good creation of
My God who seeks me out in love ©
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
