Tammy's Story

Tammy’s Story" is a deeply moving drama about faith, love, and the transformative power of God’s timing. Based on a true story, it follows Tammy, a once-skeptical student who wrestles with belief in God. As she faces a terminal illness years later, she embarks on a journey of love and reconciliation, beginning with her father. Through this, she ultimately finds the faith she once resisted. Tammy's final wish is for her story to be shared, ensuring that others might find the love and presence of God in their own lives.

Biblical Reference:

• 1 John 4:16 – "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him."
• Jeremiah 29:13 – "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Run Time:
Approximately 8-10 minutes

Cast:

• Professor (mature woman)
• Tammy (young woman)
• Father (middle-aged man)
• Extras (students, if desired)

INT. COLLEGE CLASSROOM - DAY

(Professor stands beside a flip chart with the words “Theology of Faith” written on the paper. She watches a student who sits in a chair writing an exam paper. Tammy is young, with attitude—her clothes and hair reflect her personality.)

Professor: (teasing) You have one minute left, Tammy, to complete your final exam for this first session. As my atheist-in-residence...

Tammy: (mocking) One minute? Where is the mercy of that unconditionally loving Father-God you've been talking about all semester? (Pause) Never mind....

(She gets up and walks to the Professor to hand in her paper.)

Tammy: Do you think I'll ever find God?

Professor: No!

(Tammy walks to the door, then turns to say:)

Tammy: I thought that was the product you were pushing.

Professor: Tammy, I don't think you'll ever find him, but I'm absolutely certain He will find you.

(Tammy exits.)

SAME CLASSROOM - FIVE YEARS LATER

(Professor turns a leaf on the flip chart, then uses a marker pen to write 'Five Years Later.' Father enters, carrying a newspaper.)

Father: She’s coming down the hall. She had chemo this week. She’s in bad shape today.

(Tammy enters, looking weak.)

Professor: Tammy, I've thought about you so often. You're sick...

Tammy: Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It’s a matter of weeks.

(Father sits down and puts on his reading glasses before reading the newspaper.)

Professor: Can you talk about it?

Tammy: What would you like to know?

Professor: What's it like to be twenty-four and dying?

Tammy: Well, it could be worse.

Professor: Like what?

Tammy: Like being fifty, and having no ideals, no values. Like being fifty and thinking marriage, advancing in my career, and making money are the real biggies in life.

(Professor moves closer to support Tammy with her arm.)

Tammy: When the doctors removed a lump from my breast and told me it was malignant, I began banging (bangs cane on floor) bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven. But God did not come out. In fact, nothing happened.

Professor: So, you quit?

Tammy: I decided that I didn’t really care... about God, about an afterlife, or anything like that. I decided to spend what time I had left doing something more profitable.

Father: (lowering paper) That’s when she remembered your class and something you said.

(Professor and Tammy stare at Father until he raises the paper and resumes reading.)

Professor: That the essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without telling those you loved that you loved them.

Father: That’s it.

(Professor and Tammy stare at Father again until he raises the paper and resumes reading.)

Tammy: I began with the hardest one: my Dad.

(Tammy approaches her father.)

Tammy: Dad?

Father: (gruffly) Yes, what?

Tammy: I'd like to talk with you.

Father: Well, talk.

Tammy: It's really important.

(Father lowers newspaper.)

Father: (softly) What is it?

Tammy: Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that.

(The newspaper flutters to the floor. Father takes a moment to remove his reading glasses, then rises from the chair and embraces Tammy with a great sob.)

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