Beatitudes Revisted

The Beatitudes. These 10 monologues, (each two to three minutes in length), are looked at through modern day stresses and situations. Each one comes to the conclusion that God is in control. Everything that is stated in the Beatitudes is very relevent today.

 THESE COULD BE USED AS VERY EFFECTIVE SERMON STARTERS. Monologue in ten parts, may use same or different actors, designed to be used as a series but can be used as a multi-scene single performance.

Sample of script:

Opener:

I gotta tell you something, you will not believe!
I was reading this really far out little note the other day, like to blew my mind!
Talk about being upside down backwards!
Apparently it’s supposed to be some kind of code to live by!
Not!

Whoever dreamed up this thing obviously never struggled in his whole life, I want to tell you!
Don’t believe me?
OK, try this on for logic!
Want to be rich?
Lose everything you have.
Want to be a happy person?
Don’t have a cent to your name.
Want to own the whole world? Be a doormat for people to walk on.
Ever heard of anything so off key?

I mean, everyone knows that in this day and age you want something, you go get it. If you don’t, it’s gone. Only way to get ahead is to fight and scratch, make sure you are the fastest, smartest, best. Otherwise by the time you wake up it’s too late, someone has beat you to the prize.It’s strictly a case of faster, stronger, better, right?

Any other method to live by is just dreams, that’s all it is, only dreams. You can’t live by dreams, only logic. And this is not logical, no way!
You want happiness, fulfillment? Go grab it. Now!

You want to end up on top? Climb over everyone who is ahead of you.
Want to feel fulfilled? Be number one!
I mean, this note I found on how to live? Those kind of ideas will only fly in the movies!
Those words, they just disregard all logic!
I want to tell you something friend! You want the best? Hustle out and grab it!

First monologue: Verse 3
All my life I have believed that life is a game, and the person who ends up with the most
toys wins. Like I always say: faster, stronger, better. Understand?
I mean, how else can you measure where you are in life than by counting up the coin in
your pocket, the cars in your garage? 

Nothing wrong with having stuff! It’s what we are put on this earth for.
What’s that? That’s a high-stress lifestyle? Of course, it is. Stress is the fuel that keeps
me going, keeps me sharp, keeps me on top.
rubs temples with finger tips
Besides, I will soon be on top, have it made, then I can just slow down, enjoy life. Will
be awesome, no more mountains to climb, just sit back, relax, enjoy!
frowns, massages temples with fingertips more thoroughly
You don’t understand the pressure I am under. I mean, there’s my image in the
community to think of. My position demands a certain lifestyle. It’s not easy you know.
now visibly agitated
Not sure how long I can keep this up.
Sometimes feel like I am at the end of my rope.
pauses, thinks
This note I read, a kind of blueprint on how to live, it says “You're blessed when you're at
the end of your rope”.
Blessed? What does that mean I wonder? Friend of mine says it means “happy”.
Happy?
What’s happy?
Or like, contented.
Yah, right!
very distraught
Do you think it could be?
“You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope”.
I’m there.
So why do I not feel blessed?
You know, sometimes I think it would be easier to have nothing. Zero. Absolutely
nothing. No money. No cars. Nothing.
I mean you look at some people who have nothing, man, blows my mind. The way they
act, the way they talk, the way they live, you’d swear they had it all!
The pure bliss of the poor.
Seems like the more I have the more I worry about keeping it, getting more.
“You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope”.
This friend of mine, he tells me, “With less of you there is more of God in your life.”
God in my life?
I wonder.
I think I need to think this through. . .

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