Julian of Norwich
“But Jesus, who in this vision informed me of all that is needed by me, answered with these words and said: ‘It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be gravy, and all shall be gravy, and all manner of thing shall be gravy.’”
Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be gravy with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
2 Samuel 18:28
And Ahimaaz called and said unto the king, “All is gravy.” And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king and said, “Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.”
1 Kings 18:24
And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God that answereth by fire, let Him be God.” And all the people answered and said, “Everything is gravy.”
2 Kings 4:25-27
So she went and came unto the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.
Run now, I pray thee, to meet her and say unto her, ‘Is all gravy with thee? Is everything gravy with thy husband? Is all gravy with the child?’” And she answered, “It is gravy.”
2 Kings 5:20-22
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him and take something from him.”
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he alighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all gravy?”
And he said, “All is gravy. My master hath sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now there have come to me from Mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver and two changes of garments.’”
1 Samuel 20:6-7
If thy father at all miss me, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me, that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
If he say thus, ‘All is gravy,’ thy servant shall have peace; but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
Psalm 16:1-9
Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, “Thou art my Lord; my goodness extendeth not to Thee,
but to the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.”
Their sorrows shall be multiplied, that hasten after another god; their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup; Thou maintainest my lot.
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage, all is as gravy to me.
I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel; my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad and my spirit rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is as gravy, pleasing unto the Lord.
Revelation 21:4-6
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.”
And He that sat upon the throne said, “Behold, I make all things gravy.” And He said unto me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
And He said unto me, “It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the Water of Life freely.”
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. It was all gravy.
I hope this inspires another deleted comment complaining about heresy.
BURN ME AT THE STAKE IF YOU MUST, I’LL NOT RECANT THAT THE LORD LOVES GRAVY.
Fun story: every Easter, if we sing “Up from the Grave He Arose” in church, my mom will lean over and whisper “up from the gravy…” and then I dissolve in giggles.
I was a big fan of “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am his own…”
“Aunt Chelsea’s day-o”
EggSHELL sees day-o (in school chorus, this is how we were taught to say it).
My (pastor) mom started scheduling the hymn “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God” every All Saints Sunday after learning that trying to sing it led me to laugh uncontrollably. (Sing it with me! “One was a doctor, and one was a priest, and one was slain by a fierce wild beast, and there’s not any reason– no, not the leas!– why I shouldn’t be one too.”)
I remember some Good Friday ecumenical service we all went to one year, and the service was really boring. (Which I don’t get. Good Friday can be done schmaltzy, guilt-trippy, totally devastating. But to make it boring is just wrong.) So she taught me the game “Between the Sheets at Night,” which involves choosing a hymn and appending, after its first line, “between the sheets at night.”
By the time we got to “O come all ye faithful,” I was in tears, and my father was hissing, “Knock it off. I can’t take you two anywhere.”
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending
See, The Conqueror Mounts in Triumph
Lead Me, Guide Me
(“and one was a doctor, and one was a beast, and one was killed by a fierce wild priest…” Also, that hymn is ridiculous, and I just can’t handle singing it in church.)
*snerk*
Easter People, Raise Your Voices
I Need Thee Every Hour
Come, Let us Join our Friends Above
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
I Want to be Ready
We Utter our Cry
When Our Confidence is Shaken
Fix Me, Jesus
Lord, You Give the Great Commission
It obviously works much better with common meter, but there are some titles / first lines I just can’t pass up.
He Is Risen, He Is Risen
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Come, Labor On
“I Come,” the Great Redeemer Cries
Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling
I’m assuming/hoping the logical end point of this series is a new Bible edition with all of Mallory’s brilliant replacements compiled, right? I can’t wait to get my copy of the Problematic Yet Bitchin Word of God!
I now choose to believe George Washington’s last words were “Tis gravy.”
Surprised not to see any Genesis in here.
“And the Lord saw it, and it was gravy.”
IT IS NOT GRAVY THAT A MAN SHOULD BE ALONE.
Deuteronomy 6:3 is giving the Israelites some mixed messages on the whole not mixing meat and milk thing. Although that was really the rabbis’ idea – transforming a command to be compassionate to animals into NO CHEESEBURGERS EVER AMEN SELAH.
Speaking of Amen Sela, I’m taking a Bible class right now. I consistently translate Sela as “wow,” hinei as “omg,” and “oyvim” as, quite literally, “haters.” Mallory is rubbing off on me.
I love everything about this comment, including how I hear your Sela translation voiced by a shiba inu.
To be fair to the rabbis, the whole destruction of the temple/expulsion from the land thing fucked everyone up for a while.
Prayers for Mallory, y’all.
please sing
IT IS GRAVY WITH MY SOUL
at my funeral
Where can I read this? In a link roundup somewhere?
*casually thumbs-ups everything in the thread*
Here: http://the-toast.net/2015/10/13/link-roundup-432/
Excellent, thank you!
There are also, of course, delightful lines such as “loving puts us on our knees/serving as though we were slaves,” and my choir director and I always waggle our eyebrows suggestively at each other at that bit.
The Mormon version:
Come, come, ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear;
But with joy wend your way.
Though hard to you this journey may appear,
Gravy shall be as your day.
‘Tis better far for us to strive
Our useless cares from us to drive;
Do this, and joy your hearts will swell–
All is gravy! All is gravy!
You have just vastly improved that hymn for me. How could I have been so inattentive?!
I'm actually glad it hasn't been scheduled lately, because I seem to be in an “obsessed with Richard Armitage” phase (today's North & South post is well-timed), and I think I would probably actually explode.