The Desert

THE DESERT. tells of one man's search for God and God's for Man. THE DESERT won Honorable Mention in The Plays for the New Millenium Competition.

GOD: Ten plagues on Germany! I should've brought ten plagues on their Evil! Locusts! Hail! Turned the Rhine to blood! Taken their first born! But I didn't. I had made a promise to Myself that the Age of Miracles was over. It was time for Mankind to take care of themselves. Why didn't I see and say "they're not ready" and intervene? Divine Intervention! I could've visited plague after plague on the Nazis until they relented, released My People from the Camps and Let Them Go. But I didn't. I saw the suffering and I averted mine eyes. I allowed my people to suffer and die by the millions. Yet, they continued to have faith! They prayed to Me while imprisoned in the Camps. I heard them. Most of them were praying for a new Moses to come along, a Deliverer, but I, their Lord, their God, the King of the Universe, Yahweh!, did nothing. I wouldn't blame them if they took all their temples and synagogues and torahs and mezuzahs and whatnot and blew them all to Kingdom Come! What good is a God who allows such evil to befall those who worship Him?