The Inn Keeper on Christmas Eve Monologue

This month I am sharing a monologue I wrote as the Inn Keeper at the inn where Mary and Joseph stayed on Christmas Eve.

I know we are in May but I thought if I shared this early you might be able to use it when the time comes. You may use it as is but please give credit. Thanks

"Good, morning, and hello. Yes, I am that inn keeper and I have been carrying around with me the burden of my actions for 2000 years. I would like to share for a change my side of the story. Yes, I do not deny, I put that young couple out in the barn. She was going to have a child and I knew from the look of silence and determination in her face that, that child was going to be born real soon. So, I told them I didn't have any room in my inn for them. Man, did I hear it from my wife. "How could you do such an inhuman thing as put that young couple out there?" she said.

You see, I felt that with all the drinking, the fights and the partying going on in the various rooms of my inn, why that would have been the most thoughtless, most inhuman thing to do, to give them a room even if I had one. For I was convinced, that the most unexpected things happen in my inn. I could envision someone starting a fight and the noise frightening the couple and baby. I could envision some of my customers getting drunk and carrying on. I could envision all sorts of things happening to them.

It is true that the barn smelled, yet it was also true that my inn smelled. Not of the sweet smell of hay and straw, but the smell of men and women getting sick from too much wine and food. The smell of smoke and sweat of dancing. I reasoned that the barn would be warmer with the presence of the animals and that my son would be there during the night to take care of the manure, and spread fresh smelling straw for the animals. My worst visions were true. for that very night, there was a fire in one of the rooms and it quickly spread, but only to 3 rooms. It was put out quickly.

But the smoke really messed up the living quarters with its heavy wet odor. And besides that, the police came after a fight broke out and carted three men off to the pocky. On top of the fire, and the

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