Nathanael Szobody on A Bride Adorned
A bride adorned in white bejeweled dress
So all should think her pure and clean indeed
With flowing train enchanting host and guest
Nathanael Szobody on (Psalm 119:1-8)
All are blessed who wend the perfect way
who walk in the law of the Lord
All are blessed who tend to his testimonies
they pursue him with all their heart.
Acting upon evil, indeed, never are they!
but always walking in his ways.
At last you’ve prescribed your precepts
to be kept; indeed to be kept!
Alas! Would that my ways were steadfast
so your statutes might be kept.
Attending to all your commandments
I shouldn’t ever again be ashamed.
Aright in heart would I then acclaim you
as I learn of your just judgments.
Abandon me not entirely;
I will to your statutes steadfastly!
Nathanael Szobody on God’s tenderness from us is often hid
Severe so seem his mercies beckoning
Our hearts to sweet repentance–sin to rid–
And reconciliation harkening
So Joseph hid affection brotherly
To bring his sinful clan on bended knee
No other course for men with hearts so hard
Than putting his own brother under guard
Demanding too beloved Benjamin
To test their conscious rife with ancient sin
No different ours before a God who knows
Our soul from birth so caringly he shows
Just what must break, that worldly thing so dear
That to his greater love we might draw near.
Nathanael Szobody on From all my lame defeats and oh! much more
From all the victories that I seemed to score;
From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf
At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;
From all my proofs of Thy divinity,
Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me.
Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust instead
Of Thee, their thin-worn image of Thy head.
From all my thoughts, even from my thoughts of Thee,
O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free.
Lord of the narrow gate and the needle’s eye,
Take from me all my trumpery lest I die.
–C.S. Lewis
Nathanael Szobody on From day to day in life and love
We live in the now
We seek what’s to come,
Earth our dwelling, heaven our home.
We need not know how
Or why we have come
To be what now we have become.
To see life with eyes from above