True Love - You Want It?
True Love - You Want It? was written by Tara M. Chapman.
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It's colder this afternoon. I am in the park writing to whoever cares. Another girl in the house I am staying at was telling me how her boyfriend truly loves her, even though he makes her do things she doesn't want to do. True Love. What a joke! It doesn't exist. My mom kicked me out of the house because she wanted to be alone with her boyfriend. She blames me for my father leaving. My boyfriend says he loves me, but he always wants me to do these bad things for him. A couple of times he hit me so hard I got black and blue bruises. Afterward, he told me he was sorry, that he loves me so much it hurts him to hurt me. I want to leave him and go home, but I don't think anyone wants me. Besides, I've done so many bad things that no one could ever really love me?
Who are You?
Well, you can call me Sinful Woman. I was a sinner, someone who is separated from God because of wrong choices I have made. Jesus said to me, "go and sin no more." I want to stop sinning, but sometimes I still do wrong things. It's hard. But I always remember that Jesus doesn't condemn me, and I know with Jesus’ help I can resist doing bad things.
What do you think Jesus would say to me?
He would say, "Go and sin no more."
Who are you?
I'm a woman who had a lot of relationship problems. I’d been with five men who were not my husband. All of them married to other women. And at the time, I was living with a guy.
Wow. That's just wrong! But I guess I shouldn’t judge you. I was with a guy who turned out to be married. But I didn't know he was married.
It doesn’t matter. If a man is married, he belongs to his wife. A man who doesn't think highly enough of a woman to marry her and be faithful to her is bad news.
That is what's so frustrating. Love is so complicated!
I used to think that if I showed men I loved them, or could make them love me, it would get me all the things I wanted. But then I met someone who showed me I didn't know anything about true love. He knew that in my heart I longed for a better life. He knew that I had been with men who where not my husband. He knew my background, where I came from, and where I was headed.
Hi there! You don't mind if I worship the Lord do you? He has done so much for me, I just have to worship Him. When my husband died, I was so heartbroken. My mother-in-law, Naomi, was going to return to her homeland of Bethlehem, and I decided to go with her. Life was very hard for us at first, because we had no means to support ourselves. But, in the end, the Lord provided. I married again, to a man who loves the Lord and generously provided for my mother-in-law, Naomi and me.
You know worship is your open expression of love for the Lord. You can worship Him by having a conversation with Him, we call that prayer. By singing to Him with your voice and your heart, or by writing to Him in a journal or a letter.
What are you the leader of a gang and think you’re some kind of royalty or something?
Actually, no, I'm not in a gang. But, I am a Queen. Years ago, I married a very powerful King who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven cities, from India to Ethiopia... I know about people being mean. My husband's trusted right hand man, Haman, didn't like the Jewish people because my uncle, who was Jewish, wouldn’t bow down to him. So, Haman made a law in the King’s name that on a certain day and at a certain time, all the Jewish people, even the old people and the little children, were to be killed... No matter what happened, I couldn't just sit in the castle pretending nothing was going to happen, or that I couldn't do anything to help save the people’s lives. So, I dressed in my prettiest dress and went before the King. He was very angry when he found out what Haman had done. So angry, that Haman was put to death, and my uncle was promoted to be the King’s new right hand man.
God is great! He delivers us from pain and sorrow in ways that just make us want to sing in our spirits, or dance the dance of victory.
I would like to be so happy that my spirit sings, or to be able to rise up and dance for joy.
You can be that happy. You just have to be honest with yourself and recognize that the Lord will triumph gloriously because of His great love for you. The truth of the matter is, God does love you. He loves all of us. And love always rejoices with the truth. So your spirit can sing and you will be able to rise up and dance for the joy of the Lord.
You know, you can be royalty as well?
Me? No way!
Yes, you. And everyone in here can be royalty. We all can be daughters of God Almighty, the King of kings, who rules over Heaven and Earth. So, don't look down in your sorrow, look up to the Lord. He does hear, and He will provide and take care of you.
Okay. Listen with your heart? I don't even know how you do that. Is God even real? I've never seen Him. He doesn't talk with me. I wish I knew. The women I've met today all had one thing in common. True love for God. After hearing everything they had to say, I realize I want to know what true love is too. I just don't know how to get it.
True love, huh? You want it?
Where did you come from?
I couldn't help but overhear your conversations?
Who are you?
Here's my card - Jesus Christ - I am the Resurrection and the Life. Yet to all who received him, to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
Our Cast
Marie as Esther, Laura as Sinful Woman,
Shannon as Ruth, Kitt as Miriam,
Tara (Writer/Director), Angie as the Woman at the Well,
Kody as Jesus, Emily as Jasmine, Sheri (Producer)
Chaplain Rick
Sound Man and Videographer