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Love Chased After Me

Grace with its running shoes on.

Love Chased After Me official release artwork
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Love Chased After Me

4:47

The words

Words forthcoming.

The lyric will appear here once the final release text is confirmed.

Final lyric in review

The story behind the song is available below.

Inside the song

What it holds.

This is a song about grace refusing to remain abstract. Love is active here — crossing every distance we create and meeting us in the places we thought were beyond reach.

It is also about the strange relief of finally being caught: the moment resistance gives way and being found becomes better than being free to keep running.

First light

Where it began.

The title arrived first, carrying motion inside it. It suggested a song with a pulse — something that could feel like pursuit without feeling threatening.

The writing grew from looking back at seasons that once seemed random and recognizing a thread of mercy running through all of them.

Lineage and sources

The words behind the words.

A modern adaptation of Anne Ross Cousin’s public-domain poem “The Sands of Time Are Sinking,” also known as “Immanuel’s Land.”

Original writer
Anne Ross Cousin; the nineteen-stanza poem was first published in The Christian Treasury in 1857.
Earlier source voice
Cousin drew from the letters and reported final sayings of seventeenth-century Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford.
MIЯROЯMOЯE contribution
New verses, chorus, bridge, title, arrangement, production, and a rewritten contemporary frame around Cousin’s imagery. The working archive called the song “Forever Love” and “Time’s Author” before its release title was settled.