The first Christmas pageant that I can remember was staged at Sumner Love Joy United Methodist Church's sunday school room. My mother was in charge of the program. Everyone enjoyed it for the first two years. The third year Mom's program was moved into the church's sanctuary.
Year number three, I spent much time sitting in the church pew watching Mom rehearse her three star actors for the play she had wrote. I was all of three years old.
Two years later, Mom and the other Sunday school teachers agreed to let me take part of their Christmas production. Singing Away In The Manger was not what I had in mind.
It took a long time to grow old enough to be in high school. Finally, I got to do what I had wanted to do since I was three.
Happiness is having a part in the Christmas show.
This short story started out as one of the Christmas plays that I was in.
Our church closed in 1980. We attended other churches. After being part of a variety show that always played to full house, what other churches did left me unimpressed. This is an excerpt from a play I wrote called Absolute Angel.
In 1991 I joined ACTS. ACTS does not put on a full scale Christmas production, but they do put on a Living Nativity the first week of December for Saint Nick's Night at Saint John's school. A living nativity looks like a living Christmas card.
