A short drama:
Setting: A quiet place with a single stool or chair.
Character 1 enters and sits, and covers his face.
Voices are all off-stage
Character1: What have I DONE?
Voice 1: (voice off-stage) Hey, take it easy! Everyone does stuff like that.
Character1: I wish I hadn’t done it. I want to do better.
Voice 1: Nah, you’re not strong enough to be that good. They drove you to it.
Character 1: Yeah? Probably so. But I shouldn’t have, anyway.
Voice 1: Don’t worry about it. You didn’t do anything THAT wrong.
Character 1: Go away! What I have done is wrong and I wish I hadn’t done it.
Voice 1: (Evil laugh) Hey, it’s not your fault. Don’t feel guilty! Man, your parents were way too strict!
Character 1: They WERE strict…
Voice 1: Right! Exactly! You only feel bad because of how they raised you so strictly.
Character 1: Maybe.
Voice 1: Sure! That’s it. Suck it up!
Character 1: (Clenches fists) I just have to be stronger, that’s all. I won’t do it again, I WON’T!
Voice 1: (Evil laugh) Yes! That’s the best you can do!
Character 1: Well, I AM only human, after all. I can’t be perfect.
Voice 1: Right! You’re human!
Voice 2: (Patiently) You can’t do it in your own strength.
Character 1: (Looks up and around, searching) Huh?
Voice 1: Yeah! That’s right! You’re too weak! Loser!
Voice 2: I can help you.
Character 1: How?
Voice 1: (Loudly) Hey! Don’t listen! He’s lying!
Character 1: Really? I don’t know….
Voice2: I speak the truth.
Voice 1: STOP! Don’t listen! You are WEAK!
Voice 2: Come to me, I will give you rest.
Voice 1: NO-O-O-O!
Character 1: Why do I do the things I do?
Voice 2: I made you in my image. Come to me.
Voice 1: (Interrupts urgently) He’s just human! He can’t help it.
Character 1: What do I mean? I mean I find myself doing the things I know I shouldn’t do, and I don’t do the things I should do.
Voice 1: Exactly! That is GOOD!
Voice 2: I am able to help you with that.
Character 1: How? I am too dirty, too unclean.
Voice 1: Yeah, you slime-bag! You don’t deserve anything good!
Character 1: What can I do?
Voice 2: You can do nothing, but I CAN.
Voice 1: See? Don’t listen to him. He doesn’t make any sense!
Voice 2: Are you willing to let me?
Character 1: Let you what?
Voice 1: (Like a child who makes noise because he doesn’t want to hear.) La, la, la, na, na, na!
Voice 2: (Over Voice 1) Are you willing to let me help you?
Character 1: (Over Voice 1) I can’t stand it any longer! I want to do what’s right.
Voice 1: No! No! Don’t listen! Not again!
Character 1: (Weeping) Why do I do the things I do?
Voice 2: Be holy as I am holy.
Character 1: I want to be holy, but I can’t.
Voice 2: Let me fill you with my Spirit.
Voice 1: ARRRRRRGGG!
Voice 2: I can fill you with Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Self-Control.
Voice 1: (Fading screech)
Character 1: What are all of these?
Voice 2: The fruit of the Spirit. They become evident when filled with my Spirit.
Voice 1: (Desperate moaning)
Character 1: How can I have these?
Voice 1: (Sounds further away – groaning and mumbling, almost like curses)
Voice 2: Surrender your will to mine, and consecrate yourself only to me.
Character 1: Is that all?
Voice 1: (Weakly) Too easy!
Voice 2: (Kindly) That’s it. That’s all I ask.
Character 1: That’s a lot.
Voice 2: Yes. I ask your ALL.
Voice 1: (Further away) No way you can do it! NO!
Character 1: How do I do that?
Voice 1: (Hissing static)
Voice 2: Simple! Just ask.
Character1: Ah! Faithful is He who calls, who will also do it.
Voice 2: That’s right! Come to me.
Character 1: I will do it!
Voice 1: (Screaming way off in the distance)
Character 1: Will you make me holy? I give you my will, my whole self.
Voice 2: DONE! Welcome into my presence!
Character 1: You are my peace!
Voice 1: (From very far off) No-o-o-o-o!
Voice 2: Well done, my servant. Welcome.
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