Worship Programs

Theme:

"Kingdom Power"

Second Sunday in Advent -

Drama

THE CHRISTMAS LIST

By Rebecca Phillips

Second Sunday in Advent / Your Kingdom Come – in Fulfillment!

Lights up on TINA. She is sitting at a table, writing a list. She is dressed very trendy, make-up immaculate, and hair perfectly fixed. As she is writing, she is speaking:

TINA

Three new pair of shoes – from MACY’S and not from Payless – four new sweaters from the GAP, a red one, yellow one, and black. Must have black. Exercise bike and a set of weights – gotta shed those extra pounds – and tone, tone, tone!

ENTER JACK. He is obviously exhausted from working. His pants are filthy, ripped. His shirt is stained and his hair completely disheveled. It is clear that he has put in a long day of work.

JACK

Hi honey.

TINA

(continuing her list, not hearing or seeing JACK)

A new DVD player and let’s see. . . I want all the current releases for my stocking stuffers – oh – and the new J-Lo perfume –

JACK
Tina –

TINA
Oh – hi.

JACK
What’s for dinner?

TINA

(continuing her list as she now speaks to JACK)
Leftovers.

JACK
We had those last night.

TINA
The leftovers from the leftovers.

JACK

Tina – we don’t have any leftovers from the leftovers.

TINA
Why do you have to be so picky?

JACK
Picky? I’m just hungry. I’ve been working 10 hours today – and I’m hungry. I was hoping I’d come home to a nice dinner – but you seem more preoccupied with your letter writing.

TINA
It’s not a letter. I was doing a little work, too.

JACK
On what?

TINA
My Christmas list.

JACK is obviously weary and sits down, head in hands, frustrated.

JACK
You call that work?

TINA

Well, it’s hard to think through all of my needs.

JACK
I don’t think that what’s on that list can be seen as “needs” –

TINA
Not so.

JACK
Let me see that.

JACK takes the list.

JACK
A magazine subscription to Oprah?

TINA
She gives good recipes.

JACK
You don’t even cook –

TINA
That’s why I need the subscription –

JACK
A one hundred dollar gift certificate to Pier One?

TINA
I want to redecorate the laundry room.

JACK

Tina, this is crazy. You don’t need any of these things –

TINA
Sure I do.

JACK
It’s almost as if the more stuff you have, the less of a person you become –

TINA
That makes no sense, Jack.

JACK
Think of it this way. Tina, you are filling your life with things – your mind gets crowded with projects never completed – like this crazy laundry room idea – your closets are too full of clothes you have never worn or never will wear –

TINA
That’s on the list too – see? The exercise bike is so I can lose weight to wear the clothes I have never worn and new clothes to wear while I am losing the weight to wear the clothes I have never worn – and the newly decorated laundry room is to take care of the clothes that I am wearing while I am losing weight to wear the clothes I have never worn but want to wear.

Pause. TINA takes back her list.

TINA
Jack – I need these things. I’m not satisfied without them.

JACK
Can I add something to your list?

TINA
Sure!

JACK takes her list and writes one word. Handing it back to TINA:

TINA
Jesus?!

JACK
That’s right.

TINA
You can’t buy Jesus, Jack.

JACK
And you can’t buy satisfaction and fulfillment, either. But Jesus can be those things to you if you ask Him.

TINA is quiet.

JACK
Want to try it this Christmas? Just asking for Jesus?

TINA
Can I have the Oprah subscription, too?

JACK

Let’s talk about it over dinner.

Lights.