This Present Time
Luke 12:54-59, Luke 12:49-53
Drama
by Robert F. Crowley

Theme: Can we analyze the present time as well as analyze the weather? Jesus says we'd better learn.

Summary: A father and daughter are talking about the weather and the daughter longs for her mother and brother from whom she and the father are estranged. A family drama emphasizing our inability to see the signs of the present age.

Playing Time: 3 minutes

Setting: A house

Props: Some business papers

Costumes: Contemporary, casual

Time: The present time

Cast:
Dad
Wendy -- 15 years old

WENDY: (ENTERS AND CROSSES TO DAD, WHO IS WORKING ON SOME PAPERS) Dad, do you think it's going to rain?

DAD: It looks like it.

WENDY: How do you know that, Dad?

DAD: Look, there, see that black cloud rising in the west?

WENDY: Sure. It is a black one.

DAD: Well, when you see that, it means it's go…

CSS Publishing, Lima, Ohio, Lectionary Scenes, by Robert F. Crowley