Short Dramas and Plays
Perry: (singing) I got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in me heart. Hey, Mateys. It be a fine night in AWANA land. Me ships been fixed, I feel back to me ole self, and I be ready to learn that song! (shouts to back of ship) TrueBeard? TrueBeard! Get yer hide ta the main deck pronto or you’ll be sharing the crow’s nest with ole’ Polly there.
Polly: Braaachhh. Sharin’ with Polly, sharin’ with Polly.
TrueBeard: (enters huffing and puffing) Blimey, Perry. What’s got a bee under yer cap’tn’s hat this evening? I had to leave me ice-cream cake melting in me bowl.
Perry: I’m ready ta learn that banana song.
TrueBeard: The Fruit of the Spirit song?
Perry: Right, BANANA Fruit of the Spirit song.
TrueBeard: Not banana! Just Fruit. Speakin’ of fruit, does the bright Capt’n have a favorite fruit he’d like to have us sing in the song tonight?
Perry: Yup, the Ugli fruit.
TrueBeard: Ugli fruit?
Perry: You heard me, Mate. Ugli fruit.
TrueBeard: Now where did you hear of a fruit like that?
Perry: In Jamaica,chum. Only in Jamaica the proper way of pronouncen it be HOO-glee fruit. I’ve eat one, me has. Quite tasty too, it is. A lot like a tangerine. Now quit yer whining and sing the song. I like Ugli fruit and that’s the fruit we’re goin’ ta use.
TrueBeard: Okay, are you all ready me AWANA chums? Let’s go…
The fruit of the Spirit’s not Ugli fruit.
The fruit of the Spirit’s not Ugli fruit.
If you want to be an Ugli fruit, you might as well hear it, you can’t be a fruit of the Spirit.
The fruit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
TrueBeard: Again!
Perry: (speak before kids get started) All right, all right.
We don’t have to go singin’ it all night. Besides, I need to speak ta ya bought somethin’.
TrueBeard: I’m all hair, I mean ears, Mate.
Perry: (in a confidential tone)Ever since, well, you know, askin’ Jesus into me heart and all, I’ve been sort o’ noticin’ I don’t feel so, well, ornary and all. I kinda feel, um, I can’t quite find the word. Blimey, I ain’t never felt like this afore.
TrueBeard: Aye. Chum, it sounds ta me like you been bit by the Joy bug.
Perry: (in a knowing, but not really knowing tone) Aye, the Joy bug. (pause) Uh, what’s a joy bug?
TrueBeard: Well that’d be the next fruit of the Spirit we be talkin’ about, the fruit of joy! You got it, Mate! It ain’t really a bug, that’d just be a term of expression if’n ya know what I mean.
Perry: Right, right. (tilts his head as if thinking awhile) Have I had this joy all along since I asked Jesus into me life?
TrueBeard: Yup.
Perry: And you’ve got this same joy since you invited Jesus into yer life?
TrueBeard: Certainly, why might ye be askin’, mate?
Perry: Well, that terrible wreck on the high seas last week? The one where you was hurling your cheese and crackers all over the deck, if’n ya know what I mean?
TrueBeard: Don’t remind me, chum. That was pretty rough!
Perry: Yep, if’n I remember rightly, you didn’t seem too full o joy when all was said and done. In fact, you seemed a mite upset, what with all the damage to the ship and all.
TrueBeard: Very perceptive, Perry! If’n I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re borderin’ on genius, me PiRat pal. Aye, I did forget fer a moment where me joy should be comin’ from. The second part of 1 Peter 1:8 tells us where this joy you and I have comes from. “and even now you are happy with the inexpressible joy that comes from heaven itself.”
Perry: I get ya, mate. But I don’t get just what this joy is or even just HOW we get it from heaven.
TrueBeard: Well, it’d all be tied up in what we know and WHO we know, eh? Let’s put it like this. We know the creator of all things, there ain’t anyone more powerful or more important than him. And this very same creator loves us so much he sent his son to die so that our sins could be forgiven and he could adopt us as his sons and daughters. Just knowing that is enough to fill us with joy. But that isn’t all we know!
Perry: It isn’t? What else do we know?
TrueBeard: We know that God wanted us to be born because he has a plan for our lives. And now that we have his Holy Spirit, we can carry out that plan. Isn’t that exciting?
Perry: I guess so, but what is the plan, Mate?
TrueBeard: I can’t speak for you, Perry ole pal, but my guess is that our being friends is part of it. Even that storm fit into the big picture. Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.”
Perry: If’n I was to try to find me plan, just how’d I go about it? Is there a treasure map I can be a followin?
TrueBeard: Right-O, me chap. It’s the Bible. Our AWANA mates are learning parts of it each week. Keep doing that and it will help ya figure out your plan.
Perry: Alright, so’s I need to read me Bible to help me figure out me special plan and the Holy Spirit will help me do it?
TrueBeard: You got it. You can also pray and ask. Prayers are just conversations with God and he doesn’t mind if we ask him what’s on our minds.
Perry: I still don’t understand just what this joy is?
TrueBeard: Don’t worry, Mate. Even those of us who’ve had Jesus in our lives for a long time still have trouble graspin’ all this joy stuff. I’ll try to explain it with this verse. 2 Cor 6:10 “Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord. We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others. We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.” This joy from the Spirit is not like the joy the world knows.
Perry: I remember that evil Pirate Johnny Rottenseed sayin’ that he found a lot o joy in makin’ me miserable. That ain’t the joy we be talkin’ ‘bout fer sure.
TrueBeard: Right mate. OUR joy is a gladness that comes from contentment or satisfaction, not the misery of others. For example, in that storm, I should have beem cheerful. Even though things were blowin’ apart, I was never alone or without hope. God has said, “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." That’s in Deut. 31:6.
I guess it all can be summed up like this. Rom 8:38-39 says, “For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels won't, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God's love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, or where we are-high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean-nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us.” That means that no matter what happens to me or what my life is like, I can feel that all is settled and okay because no one can ever take me away from Jesus and Jesus will never stop loving me.
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In this passage: TrueBeard: Well, it’d all be tied up in what we know and WHO we know, eh? Let’s put it like this. We know the creator of all things, there ain’t anyone more powerful or more important than him. And this very same creator loves us so much he sent his son to die so that our sins could be forgiven and he could adopt us as his sons and daughters. Just knowing that is enough to fill us with joy. But that isn’t all we know!
Wouldn't it be better to write "We know God made everything, there ain't anyone more powerful or more important than him. And that God loves us so much that he sent his son..."
Just a suggestion. :) Hope it goes well!