Father and Son

By Sharon-Kathleen Corner

J:   Dad!  Where are you?  

D:   what is all the screaming about?

J:  I just came from town!  You need to come!

D:  What?  No, I have too much to do, I don’t have time to come to town!
J:  You have to come!  Come on dad!
D:  Why?
J:  The KING IS HERE!
D:  Ceasar?  Bah!  Why would I want to go and see him?   Come on, mom said you didn’t do any of your chores!  Once again, your brother did what you were supposed to do!

J:  Dad, I was in town, I was talking to the Manuael, you know the man who owns the inn at the edge of town? 
D:  Yes, I know him.   Man charges a fortune for his cheap rooms.

J:  Dad, he said the Son of God was born there!

D:  Really?  The Son of God was born in one of his rooms at the inn?
J:  No, in his manger!

D (Gives his son a really stern look) You want me to believe….that GOD…GOD ALMIGHTY, allowed His Son to be born among the cows and donkeys?  Son, Maneael is joking with you!
J:  No he isn’t-

D:  Of course he is!  No Son of God would be born here, with the pigs!  He would be born with Royalty!  He would have a golden bed, and the finest feathers for a mattress.

J:  Dad, I am telling you-

D:  No, I am telling you!  Enough with this nonsense! 

J:  Dad-

D:  No!

J:  Just listen!

D:  I don’t want to listen!  I want you to get your work done!  I want to come home from work one day and find out that you have done your chores!  I want to see your room clean, your homework done and not hear your mother complaining about the work you haven’t done or her telling me she has no idea where you are!

J: Dad!

D:  God wouldn’t send His Son here!   HERE!  Among the cows, and the sheep, in Bethlehem!   He would be born on a mountain top, for all the world to see and to worship.

J:  Well, He wasn’t.

D:  What?
J:  He wasn’t.

D:  How dare you speak back to me like that?
J:  Well, you are wrong!

D:  Go to your room!
J: NO!  The Son of God was born, I saw Him.

D:  You saw nothing!
J:  I saw a baby, born in the barn behind the inn.  He was the Son of God.

D:  You saw a baby who was born in barn because his parents couldn’t get a room in the inn because the town is full of people coming into town for the census.

J:  You know, when you are proven wrong, you are going to look really stupid.

D:  (Enraged)  HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!  I will take you out behind the barn and tan your hide until you can’t sit for a week!

(grabs his son)

(The angel appears, dad is shocked, steps back in fear)
A:  Do not fear, I bring you good news!!  The Son of God has been born!  He is here!  Follow the Star, you will find Him.  You can Worship the King.

D:  (Turns around) The star….that is over the edge of town?  
A: Yes.

D:  About where Manuael’s inn is……?

A:  (Smiles)  Go now, go worship Your King.

J:  (sticks out his tongue)  Told ya.  (walks off)