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"An orange rose is for the spark of romance and the fire of love; it is the kindling of each dawn and the glowing ember of sunset.”

 

Plays

Good Friday Grace

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While we know the people in the story of Good Friday, several objects were prominently featured as well. By considering the voices of the object makers, we might gain a deeper understanding of Jesus’ sacrifice. This set of monologues has already been successfully performed for its first audience of about one hundred people.

Play now available from Contemporary Drama Service, excerpt below.

   Cross Maker: Don’t look at me like that!. You didn’t expect me to sacrifice my livelihood for a convicted criminal, did you? If I didn’t make his cross, someone else would…You can’t blame me-- I had to make a living for my family. I couldn’t sacrifice them for him. I made the cross yes, but someone else used it. Crosses aren’t the easiest thing to make, but the pay is good. What was I supposed to do?


   Funny how a tree in the Garden of Eden caused all our problems and a tree of a carpenter solved them. Wood saved Noah from water; wood saved us from fire. What would you have done if you were me? I had to make it. I couldn’t disobey the Romans and sacrifice my life for him …

 

Living the Last Supper

DaVinci had a purpose to the moment that he captured in his painting.  At the very time the disciples react in different ways to the announcement that one will betray him, Jesus’ hands still welcome and serve them communion with his eyes focused out to us as well, inviting us even today to join in this holy meal and his call for all of us to serve.

Excerpt

Matthew:”…The wine is to be served at different times during the Passover meal, but you gave us different wine and added something new to the Passover rite.  You told us to drink your blood, the living water given for us.

It made me think about your first miracle.  Did the others remember too?   You turned water to wine at a wedding banquet.  The water poured from the cleansing jar turned to red.  And you gave such fine wine, the finest of wines, that the guests said that the host had saved the best for last. 

Here I sit with the cup and sip your blood of the new covenant.  And you saved the best for last.  The last miracle of the last supper.  How fitting to bring your ministry full circle from cleansing water to wine; from wine to cleansing water…”

 

 

 

© Teryl Cartwright 2007

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