David and God III, 2
DAVID: Lord, I’ve been thinking.
GOD: About what?
DAVID: What you were saying…
GOD: Yeah?
DAVID: …about how sometimes you pick the most …well…unworthy people to do your work.
GOD: Well…..I’m the one who makes them worthy.
DAVID: . . . sometimes…sometimes I don’t feel worthy at all.
GOD: Let me teach you a new word.
DAVID: Okay.
GOD: “Grace.”
DAVID: Grace? That’s it? I already know that word.
GOD: You sure?
DAVID: Probably not.
GOD: It’s probably the most beautiful word I know.
DAVID: It’s mentioned a lot in the Bible.
GOD: 156 times.
DAVID: You counted?
GOD: I wrote it.
DAVID: Oh. Sorry. So…what is it?
GOD: Do you remember when you were really little and you wanted a puppy?
DAVID: What’s that got to do…?
GOD: Work with me, David.
DAVID: Oh. Yeah. I remember. I begged my dad for a puppy for Christmas.
GOD: And?
DAVID: And he wasn’t too crazy about the idea. He thought I wouldn’t take care of it.
GOD: Remember his list of rules?
DAVID: Yeah. He said I had to sign a contract that I’d take care of it…house break it, clean up after it, feed it. If I broke the contract I’d have to give the puppy away.
GOD: And what did you do?
DAVID: I couldn’t do it. I knew no matter how hard I tried I’d break the rules…I was just a kid. I went to bed crying.
GOD: And on Christmas morning?
DAVID: The contract was under the Christmas tree…with a big word written across the top.
GOD: Which was. . . .?
DAVID: “Grace.” It said whenever I broke one of the rules and I was sorry, Dad would forgive me.
GOD: And you named the puppy…..?
DAVID: I’d forgotten that. I called her Grace. (John begins playing “Amazing Grace” on the piano.)
GOD: (after John has played a bit) It’s a beautiful thing… (Hannah rises and begins to dance)
DAVID: (when it comes around in the music, begins to sing…cue other staff ahead of time to join in) Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see. (then 2nd verse) When we’ve been there 10,000 years, bright shining like the sun. We’ve no less days to sing God’s grace than when we first begun. (John stops playing, Hannah continues to dance, David leads them in singing the first verse again.)