(“radio” broadcast opens with sounds of clacketing typewriter, followed by three bright xylophone tones of a radio signature tune -- a cheerful commentator brightly picks up -- if this script is employed as a standard drama, an actor can sit by an old radio and react to what he hears; best performed as a dramatic reading with several readers, and off-stage readers over PA or loud speaker...)
FAITH:
(professional, but musical) Good evening. This is Faith Hopesalot for Radio Station B L I F -- “Radio BELIEF.” For the last 2,000 years we have been bringing wide-eyed wonder to a world-weary world. Here with me now is Senior Commentator Earnest Fervent...
EARNEST:
(booming stereotypical newscaster voice) Thank you Faith. And greetings, World. Mysterious Magic. Charismatic Cults. Gurus and Magis and Fakirs, OH MY! It is easy to grow callous and pessimistically skeptical in today’s world of sensational headlines and bogus bringers of beatific bounty. Is this latest so-called “Healing” just another in a too-long line of false Messiahs? And now we go to the field where our Ace Reporter Zeke Ahnock is standing by with a special report. Zeke, are you there?
ZEKE AHNOCK:
(slightly nasal voice) Hello Earnest and Faith! Yes, I am here, right now in the colorful little town of Cana, where I reported just last month on the spirited miracle attributed to the local wonder-worker, Yahshua ben Yosef.
FAITH:
(interrupting) Excuse me, Zeke? WHO?
ZEKE AHNOCK:
Yahshua ben Yosef -- “Yahshua” would transliterate as “Joshua,” or more commonly today as “Jesus,” or in Spanish as “Hey-zeus” -- and “Yosef” transliterates as “Joseph,” or in Spanish as “Josea...”
The reports seem to be conclusive. Many eyewitnesses describe this event as nothing short of miraculous. The only detractors seem to be the spiritual writers and the local clergy, who summarily denounce Jesus; however, they were unavailable for comment.
I have here with me a young woman from Samaria who wishes to remain anonymous. She is visiting Cana. Can you tell us, Miss, what in fact you witnessed with your own eyes.
WOMAN:
(halting English, pronounced foreign accent, rolling ALL Rs) I tell you, truly. Simply. This Man. Yahshua. He is the One. Messiah. He is the Living Water. He is my -- how do you say? Tender of the Sheep?
ZEKE AHNOCK:
Shepherd?
WOMAN:
Yass! He is my Shepherd. I follow Him from my country. When He looked at me, He saw ME, not my birth.
The Jews and Samarians. Even though we are all the children of Abraham. But such hatred. But not Yahshua. He spoke to me, truly. With love. So I know Yahshua to be Messiah. I follow Him. To here, Cana. A royal officer came to Yahshua -- his son sick, so sick as to die.
But he didn’t truly believe -- not in Messiah. When he looked at Messiah he did not see MESSIAH. He saw only a man, tired, covered in dust from travel -- such plain clothes --he expected something else. A show. A big show, but Yahshua no show.
Pleaze, I to continue. Yahshua, His heart breaks, because the religious people have no belief -- they want a sign, a wonder. Even me, without a sign, no wonder -- I believe. But still, this royal officer DID have faith. Little faith. But still it was faith. And he cried to the Messiah: “Sir, come, or my child will die!”
And with tears in his eyes, Yahshua said to him: “Go home -- thy son liveth!”
ZEKE AHNOCK:
And so there we have it. By the report of many credible witnesses, the boy WAS healed. An incredible event! This is Zeke Ahnock, reporting from Cana.
FAITH:
This is Faith Hopesalot, Radio Station B L I F -- “Radio BELIEF.” Thank you so much, Zeke Ahnock, for that edifying report from Cana, wouldn’t you agree, Earnest?
EARNEST:
(booming stereotypical newscaster voice) Why yes, Faith, it IS heartening. And THIS just in! A communication coming in from a corresponding commentary from our commentator in Capernaum. Chastity Charisma, are you with us?
(a loud noise of wind blowing fills the airwaves)
CHASTITY:
(voice breaking up, faint and hard to hear) This is Chastity Charisma -- we’re going to have to move this broadcast inside the villa, as there is an incredible windstorm right now, please be patient...
(wind slowly dies away)
CHASTITY:
(continuing as soon as wind dies) That’s better. We’re here in Capernaum with the servant in the employ of the nobleman in this story -- in fact, you were the actual servant that met your employer halfway between Capernaum and Cana.
SERVANT:
I have embarked upon a new platitude of truth. In fact, my whole life has been changed.
CHASTITY:
And to what do you owe this new lease on life?
SERVANT:
Most certainly, it all ties back to the miracle in question. In fact, my master’s son was left in my care the day that my master went to meet the Savior. The doctors gave no hope. Fever, wasting away until he was nothing more than a tiny skeleton.
My master was desperate. He didn’t really think that this Jesus person was the Messiah, he didn’t really even believe that his poor baby boy could be saved. But miracles DO draw crowds. And my master had heard quite a lot about that marriage at Cana when Jesus turned water into wine. Because who knows, perhaps Jesus, against all the odds, could actually spare the life of this innocent boy? This was his last hope.
I was there that day when my young charge lay upon his bed. I knew his final breath would come at any moment. But at one o’clock something odd happened. He took a deep breath. And color glowed in his face, healthy color! And I watched as the corners of his mouth turned up, and he looked at me, and recognized me, for the first time in days. He fell into a deep and wonderful sleep, a pleasant, very still sleep -- not the twisting, moaning, weeping half-sleep he had been living in for the last few weeks.
CHASTITY:
Sounds thrilling!
SERVANT:
(very excited, beginning to lose some of his “upper-crust” affectation) I was ready for anything Jesus had for me.
When I saw my master in the distance I ran to meet him and told him: “He’s alive!” And do you know what he replied? He said: “I know!” Can you believe that? And then I told him: “He’s completely well!” And you’ll never guess what the first question he asked me -- he didn’t ask how did it happen, or was I kidding. No! He asked, with a knowing smile: “At what time did it happen?”
I told him “One o’clock,” and he nodded. And HE KNEW. He later told me that was the exact time when Jesus said: “He will live.” I’ll tell you, the most important thing about this story is what happened when my master looked into our Master’s eyes.
He changed right then. Sure, he had unbelief, but I think the Master helped my master’s unbelief. And the truths I’ve since learned: when we come to God, and have faith, even the tiniest portion of faith, every prayer we bring to God goes to His heart.
And now our whole household is Christian!
CHASTITY:
Well thank you so much for sharing that eyewitness testimony. And in Capernaum, this is Chastity Charisma, signing off. Back to you, Faith and Earnest!
EARNEST:
(booming stereotypical newscaster voice) Thank you SO much, Chastity, what a wonderful testimony. This is Earnest Fervent with Radio Station K-B-L-I-F -- “Radio BELIEF.” Well, Faith, it looks to me like there is a very good reason for faith in today’s world.
FAITH:
Yes, Earnest, I am in 100 percent agreement with you. That’s all for this hour, but until next time, this is Faith Hopesalot with Radio Station BELIEF, bringing wide-eyed wonder to a world-weary world. Thank you, God bless you, and good evening.
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