Scoops
January 19th, 2021
Starring: Missionary 1, Missionary 2 (20’s)
Somewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere. The Missionaries sit outside an ice cream stand/shop. Missionary 1 has a double-decker scoop in a waffle cone. Missionary 2 has two scoops in a cup:
MISSIONARY 1
How’s yours?
MISSIONARY 2
Yum. Blueberry and caramel is a good combo. You want a taste?
MISSIONARY 1
I’ve got my hands full.
MISSIONARY 2
Is the buttercream good?
MISSIONARY 1
I don’t know, it’s on the bottom. If I don’t eat the top scoop first, the walls of Jericho fall.
MISSIONARY 2
Ha!
See, that’s why I like the cup. You get all the flavors all at once. No mess.
MISSIONARY 1
But then you lose the majesty of the cone.
MISSIONARY 2
To me, the majesty’s in the combination of the flavors.
MISSIONARY 1
But a cup is so...bleh. It doesn’t show the sheer awesomeness of what ice cream is!
I look at a cone, and I see structure. I see beauty, I see texture I...I see God, holding us up!
MISSIONARY 2
Hmm.
If we are all equal in the eyes of God, then we must all be on the same level, mixed together. God should be a cup!
MISSIONARY 1
In God’s eyes, we are equal. But every soul, as their own scoop, is touched by the cone in a different way. God’s love looks different between you and me, and him and her. What we all share is the beautiful world God’s created for us!
MISSIONARY 2
But the cone is unjust! It allows complex hierarchies that cause suffering! An inability to find salvation!
MISSIONARY 1
Just the opposite. The cone provides room to grow, rise up, find better touch with a higher power! The cup is confining and simplistic!
MISSIONARY 2
The cup surrounds every scoop. You can feel its touch and guidance around you! And its confines are made to be simple: the ten commandments, love thy neighbor! It fosters rich harmony, not unsavory imbalance!
MISSIONARY 1
The world is imbalanced! That’s why we must be supported by God! In a cone!
MISSIONARY 2
The world is balanced! But we must embrace it through God! In a cup!
MISSIONARY 1
Then God can’t love you!
MISSIONARY 2
Then God can’t love you!
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MISSIONARY 1
(overlapping)
That was unkind.
MISSIONARY 2
(overlapping)
I didn’t mean that.
MISSIONARY 1
If we were all the same, how could God live uniquely in all of us?
MISSIONARY 2
He couldn’t. That’s why we’re such a good team.
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MISSIONARY 1
Do you think we’re doing it?
MISSIONARY 2
What?
MISSIONARY 1
Changing people?
MISSIONARY 2
I don’t know anymore.
All I know is God’s got a plan for everyone. All we can do is point them the right way.
MISSIONARY 1
Yeah.
Preach.
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Can I try some?
MISSIONARY 2
If I can try some buttercream.
Missionary 1 nods. They each hold out their ice creams, and take spoonfuls of the other’s. They try their samples and nod approvingly. They feel a little holier.