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Though the finer details may vary,

we all share the same story.

This is God's story. 

This is also your story.

Open the curtains and let us begin.

***ACT I***

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 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
   How vast is the sum of them! 
Were I to count them,
   they would outnumber the grains of sand—
   when I awake, I am still with you.

~Psalm 139:17-18

     There lives a King who has an awesome Kingdom.  He is a wonderful King and no evil exists in him.  He rules and administers justice beautifully and perfectly.  It has to do with how He is all knowing and can see every thread in the fabric of life. His Kingdom is full of light, his light.  That light is his Son, the Prince of Peace.  They share the same Heart and it makes them one. All life springs from them and nothing that came into existence exists apart from them.  They are all that is good, all that is light, and life itself.  Everything else apart from them is a phoney, cheap, carbon copy.

     One day the King decides that He would like more children and would like for his Son to get married and give him more children.  Well, this King is a real romantic so he sets the stage for a wonderful courtship.  He creates this awesome garden with wonderfully scented flowers in bloom. The animals are real nice too and no one eats each other. They are all vegetarians.  Even the lions don't eat their friends, the lambs.

     And then the King creates a beautiful Princess for the Prince and sets her in the garden.  She is their delight and they love her so.  As a recipient of their goodness she will have the delightful pleasure of basking in their love and beauty...and the joys of loving them back.  Although exceedingly wonderful, this pre-arranged marriage won't be forced on her for what is love if it is not given a choice?  

     So the King plants these trees in the garden and tells the Princess not to eat of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  It's not that the knowledge itself is bad, just that it represents going at it alone without the King, his Son, and their Heart.  The Princess was never created to live apart from them. It's not that He's some tyrant as He is sometimes most unfortunately seen by those in the dark.  It is because there is no real life, light, or good apart from him.  

     All was going wonderful when the evil villain got a wiff of what was going on.  He, doing his thing, comes on the scene looking to start trouble.

     A peak at the backstage reveals some background information on the evil villain.  This evil villain despises the King and his Kingdom.  Somewhere something went wrong with him.  He used to be in the light and was made very beautiful, but he was corrupted by his beauty and became prideful as he took his gaze off the King from which beauty springs and looked upon himself instead.  This progressed to scheming against the King by aspiring to be like him which led to his downfall. He's got his own kingdom too made up of those that followed his departure from the Kingdom of light.

     So the evil villain, up to no good, weaves a tangled web of deceit sown together by false promises of a better life.   He disguises the corrupt way that led to his own downfall and offers it to the Princess in the forbidden fruit. The lie?  She too can be like the King if she will just take matters into her own hands.

     With her eyes fixed more on the creation rather than the Creator the Princess partakes of the deceptively enticing fruit that contained a worm of a snake at its pitted core. 

     There is no real life, love, and goodness apart from the King.

     The Princess immediately dies to the life found in the King, the Prince, and their Heart.  Furthermore, she has fallen into a deep sleep and can no longer hear their voice calling out to her in love.  Instead, the Princess now finds herself awakened to the kingdom of darkness where foreign appetites consume and imprison her.  She has now been taken captive by the evil villain.  Her beautiful garments have been replaced with the garments of a slave.  Her life is no longer her own.  What she thought would elevate has led to her downfall and an awful bondage.

     Now our King and his Son still love the Princess very much. They grieve at Heart for her.  His Princess has made an unwise and costly choice.  The King's Heart desire is to see her restored to his Kingdom and joined together, two-as-one, in holy matrimony to his Son.  A plan had already been put in place to rescue the Princess from the consequences of her actions.  Yes, in an incredibly unselfish act the Prince offers to leave his glorious position in his Father's Kingdom and pay the costly price to free the Princess from the evil villian and his kingdom. By doing so He will also have opened the door for her return to the Kingdom of light where He will awaken her from her deep sleep with a kiss.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
for your love is more delightful than wine.

Song of Solomon 1:2

Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!

 Psalm 34:8

Song:  My Romance



Artist:  Melissa Wise 

Proceed to Act II