Breath of Heaven Skit

By Sharon-Kathleen Corner

A is wearing a Christmas sweater and running around, starting to wrap a gift, then runs to another section of the stage to decorate, then back to the gift, then to a table to write something on a list, then remembers something, runs to other side of stage, pulls out a bag, brings it to where the gift is, pulls out more gifts to be wrapped, starts wrapping, runs out of ribbon, runs to the list to write down ribbon, the whole time talking to himself.

A:  Okay….have to get this gift wrapped….this gift is for….oh who is this gift for?  This gift is for….Dad!  This gift is for dad!  Did I put the wreath up?  Oh my gosh, I promised mom I would put the wreath up (runs to put the wreath up).   There, wreathe up, mom won’t be mad.  What did I get mom?  Oh my gosh, what did I get mom?   Oh!  I still have to get mom a new coffee mug to replace the one I broke! (Runs to list, writes it down).  Oh, wait!!  Did I already buy it?  (Runs to the other side of the stage, pulls out bag, brings it over to the table pulls out gifts).  Oh, really?  I can’t believe this!  I forgot I already bought dads gift before.   Now I have two of them!   Well, hey, he’ll probably break it, so I will just put this away and when he does, I will give him this one.   YES!  Here is mom’s gift!  Let me wrap it before I forget.   (starts wrapping it, grabs ribbon, it’s gone).  I need more RIBBON!   SHOPPING LIST!  (Runs over)

During this time, B come to the side and watched A and is just baffled, puts hands in hair in amazement.

B:  Hey A, what are you doing?

A:  AH!!  (Jumps, sends pad and pen flying)  Oh my gosh, you scared me!

B:  What are you doing?

A: What do you mean what am I doing, what does it look like I am doing?

B:  Honestly?  It looks like you are going crazy.

A:  Of COURSE I am going crazy!  It is CHRISTMAS!  You are supposed to be going crazy at Christmas!  (as A talks, starts screaming)  There are gifts to wrap and I promised to help decorate and I still have to get gifts for the secret Santa at school and the dirty Santa at band and the Christmas party at (boy/girl) scouts and OH MAN I forgot the drama club party!  (grabs the paper and pad and starts writing, looks back at B)  WHAT?  What are you looking at!?!?!

B:  A crazy person?

A:  I am not crazy!   YOU are OBVIOUSLY crazy, because YOU are too calm!

B:  What?

A:  Look at you!  You are calm!  How can you be calm?  It’s the Holidays!  How can you be calm?

B:  Well, maybe because I am in the true Christmas spirit.

A:  HA!  How can you be in the true Christmas spirit?  You aren’t even wearing a Christmas sweater!

B:  (pulls the bottom of A’s sweater to get a better look at the sweater)  Yeah, that sweater…that really would put me in the spirit….the Nightmare before Christmas Spirit.  Jeepers, where did you get this thing?

A:  (Snotty)  My Aunt Amy made it, thank you.

B:  Wow, what did you do to make her mad at you?

A:  I happen to be her favorite nephew.

B:  Really?

A:  REALLY!!  And I bet she is going to give me another one this year.  I get a new one every year from her.  And I got her….i got her….OH MAN!  I forgot to get her a gift!  SHOOT!!   OH!   (points pencil at B) but, I bought Dad two of the same gift, so I can give her the other one, and just make sure they don’t see each others gift, and then that solves that problem!  And then…oh…wait, what am I going to give Uncle Barn.

B:  Uncle Barn?

A:  Her HUSBAND!  Of course I have to give uncle Barn a gift!

B:  Uncle Barn?    His name is Uncle Barn.

A:  His name is Barney!  We call him Barn.

B:  Give him a purple dinosaur.

A:  NOT FUNNY.   Oh my gosh!  (Drops paper and pencil and pulls at hair) What am I going to get Uncle Barn?  I have to go back to the store!  Dad is going to kill me!  I promised him I was done shopping and I still haven’t finished it all!   Wait!  (runs off stage and brings out two more bags and starts dumping them on the stage ((I would recommend a tarp or something so clean up after the play will be easier))).  Maybe I have something in here, I bought all this stuff, there has to be something in here!!    (searches through gifts, throwing them down) no no no no no no!! 

B:  (Walks over to A) Stop.

A:  What?  What are you doing just standing there?  HELP ME!!

B:  (Goes down to A and grabs both hands, calmly talks to A)  Stop.

A:  Stop what?  I can’t stop!  I have to find the gift for Uncle Barn!

B:  No, this isn’t what Christmas is about!

A:  Of course this is what Christmas is about!

B:  No, this is crazy!

A:  YES!  (grabs B by the arms and starts shaking B)  Christmas is CRAZY!  People go crazy around Christmas!  Mom and dad have been grumpy all week because Grandma is coming tomorrow and my sister is mad because her boyfriend dumped her and mom is mad at me because I am not helping enough and Dad had to go to the ER because he fell off the roof!  THIS IS THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS!!!

B:  OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SANTA CLAUS!!!   You have flipped your lid! 

A:  WHAT?

B: STOP SCREAMING AT ME!

A:  I AM NOT SCREAMING!
B: YES YOU ARE!
A:  NO I AM NOT!!  (Stops screaming)  Oh yes I am.

B. Yeah, you are.  Dude, you need to calm down, this is not what Christmas is supposed to be about.

A:  Of course it is. 

B:   No.   It isn’t.   Christmas isn’t about gifts, and shopping and decorating and going crazing and falling off the roof of a house. 

A:  Oh yeah?  Then what is it about?

B:  Christ.  Christmas is about Christ. 

A:  Oh, yeah, yeah.  I have heard that story before.

B:  You may have heard it, but you haven’t LISTENED to it, or you wouldn’t be going crazy like this. 

A:  (Matter of fact tone) The story about the Jesus, a little baby born under the star, joy to the world, silent night and all those happy songs we sing before we get to open our gifts.  TaDa!

B:  (silent for a moment) There’s so much more to Christmas than that.  It wasn’t (Makes quote marks with fingers) A baby born under a star, it was THE baby, the Son of God.  Jesus wasn’t just a baby, He was, is, the Son of God, and Christmas is CHRISTmas, the birthday of Christ.  On Christmas, we are celebrating His birthday, and our Salvation.

A:  Salvation?

B:  Jesus was born to deliver us from Sin.   If you believe in Him, and confess your sins, and ask Him into your heart, you will be saved, and go to Heaven. 

A:  I don’t need salvation to go to heaven.  I am going there.

B:  Really?

A:  Yeah!  I am a very good person!

B:  You don’t sin?

A:  NO!

B:  You have always obeyed your parents?

A:  No, but why should that matter?

B:  That is one of the Ten Commandments.   If you disobey one of the Ten Commandments, you are sinning.   So, every time you disobey, or dishonor your parents, you have sinned.  Have you ever lied?  (A opens mouth, then squirms and is silent).  Yeah, thought so.  Or, wanted something that someone else had, like when you wanted my Wii? 

A:  Yeah, so?

B:  That is called coveting, that’s a sin.  BUT, that is why Jesus was born.  His birth, and then his death, was to save us from sin.    He was pure, He never sinned, but He died, on the cross, so that we could go to heaven, IF and only IF we believe in Him, and BELIEVE that He did that.  Believe in Him, accept Him into our hearts. 

A:  Okay, I believe in Jesus.  There.  I am in heaven.

B:  (Bursts out laughing)  Not quite.  You have to walk the walk and talk the talk.

A:  Huh?

B:  Do like I am doing, tell others about Him, tell others the story of Jesus Christ.  Tell others about the wonderful sacrifice He made for you and me.  

A:  I have to talk like you?  People will make fun of me, they make fun of you all the time!  Oh my gosh, I didn’t mean-!

B:  That’s okay.   I know kids call me the Jesus Freak.  And that’s okay!  I am!   I am proud of it.   And once you know all He has done for you, you will want to talk about it, too.  Being called Jesus Freak becomes a badge of honor.  Look, this is a lot to take in all at once.

A:  No kidding.

B:  I’ll tell you what, I will make you a deal you can’t refuse.

A: Oh?

B:   I will help you with this mess.  I can help you decorate and wrap your gifts and I am sure in all those gifts, you have something for Uncle Barney.   In exchange, you agree to come with me to Youth Group for three weeks. 

A:  Three weeks?  (In a complaining sort of way)

B:  Surely my services in getting you out of this mess is worth three weeks!

A:  (Looks around, holds out hand)  You have a deal.

They both shake on it, and both head to the table of gifts.

B:  You sure Uncle Barney doesn’t want a purple dinosaur?