I always imagined what that day might of been like. The day Jesus was born. I can't imagine how Mary felt in her youth as she prepared to give birth to THE promise that would save mankind. Such a beautiful thought. Here's the thing, I was asked to prepare a play for the church for our Christmas Celebration. Well I had great people to work with, who are funny and daring. I didn't make it a big event, I tried to make it as simple as possible with lots of humor. Well it came out so funny and lovely at the same time. We are always painted the clean, perfect picture of how Christ came into the world and we kinda forget that Mary and Joseph were human! So I dared to make Joseph a nervous wreck and Mary a moody lady in labor. An example of this is when Mary is walking towards the Manger she gets a strong contraction and squeezes Josephs hand to the point of fracturing it, and both equally yell like girls in pain! So funny! I am so glad the church played along and laughed at all the right moments.
My parents played the Manger owners with an extra thick accent (they speak mostly Spanish, so they have a heavy accent anyway) and when my Dad is showing Joseph the manger he mentions his wife had 10 kids (my parents literally had 10 kids) and she could assist Mary in her labor. When my mom shows up she is this over emotional woman who seems more excited than all of them that Mary is having her first child! "Oh ju have fyirst baebae, I member my fyirst baebae, 10 pounds!" she yelled, with her hands and face guesturing every word! everyone just laughed!
The angels were another one of my favorites cause Eleina on the far right was the messenger angel who had a scroll with the message inscribed on it. We turned on mission impossible music as she walked in, like a spy on the lookout, passed all the church pews. Then as she is getting near the other angels she trips and the music is shut off abruptly. She jumps up and as she adjusts herself says, "I'm OK!" Well they get to the shepherds in the field and try waking them up three different times until one of the angels finally yell, "HEY, WAKE UP!" and as the shepherds wake up, a recorded track goes on with a choir singing, "HALLELUJAH!"
It all came out perfect and funny! I love these people for taking a risk from the norm. They made this day so special and laughter filled the church. It's good to not get so caught up in the whole neat, clean and perfect manger scene. These people were human and perhaps had many flaws just like us. The play ended with the two little angels leading the two songs "Away in a manger" and "Silent Night" It was beautiful.
This is a picture of Pastor and his little girl, who was an angel, following him around. I just thought it was so cute cause I feel like this is how God looks out for us, we have our guardian angels.
My parents played the Manger owners with an extra thick accent (they speak mostly Spanish, so they have a heavy accent anyway) and when my Dad is showing Joseph the manger he mentions his wife had 10 kids (my parents literally had 10 kids) and she could assist Mary in her labor. When my mom shows up she is this over emotional woman who seems more excited than all of them that Mary is having her first child! "Oh ju have fyirst baebae, I member my fyirst baebae, 10 pounds!" she yelled, with her hands and face guesturing every word! everyone just laughed!
The angels were another one of my favorites cause Eleina on the far right was the messenger angel who had a scroll with the message inscribed on it. We turned on mission impossible music as she walked in, like a spy on the lookout, passed all the church pews. Then as she is getting near the other angels she trips and the music is shut off abruptly. She jumps up and as she adjusts herself says, "I'm OK!" Well they get to the shepherds in the field and try waking them up three different times until one of the angels finally yell, "HEY, WAKE UP!" and as the shepherds wake up, a recorded track goes on with a choir singing, "HALLELUJAH!"
It all came out perfect and funny! I love these people for taking a risk from the norm. They made this day so special and laughter filled the church. It's good to not get so caught up in the whole neat, clean and perfect manger scene. These people were human and perhaps had many flaws just like us. The play ended with the two little angels leading the two songs "Away in a manger" and "Silent Night" It was beautiful.
This is a picture of Pastor and his little girl, who was an angel, following him around. I just thought it was so cute cause I feel like this is how God looks out for us, we have our guardian angels.
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