Moses, Gavin & Stacey

If you're not familiar with Gavin & Stacey, have a quick look at this clip. What follows is a little known episode...

Mick	That's amazing, I don't suppose you see that very often...
Bryn	Unbelievable it was. Four hundred years slaving in Egypt then God intervenes and set us free. I remember it as clear as if it had been last week.
Mick	When was it?
Bryn	Last week.
Mick	Right - so you remember it well then?
Bryn	Oh, yes. Chased by the Egyptian army we were. All the way to the Red Sea. Thought we were going to drown. Or get chopped into little pieces by the Egyptians. Or trampled by all the people behind us who were trying to escape being chopped into little pieces.
Pam	Ooh, that's terrible, so what happened? Did you get drowned or chopped into little pieces?
Bryn	No. We didn’t. Didn’t even get wet. God parted the waters and we all walked through. Thousands upon thousands of us. Completely dry we were. Except for the Egyptians that is.
Pam	What happened to them then?
Bryn	Drowned. Water didn’t part for them see. Came back. Drowned ‘em all. Very wet they got. We were dry. Hungry mind, but dry.
Mick	You must have been so filled with faith, seeing God do that.
Bryn	Oh yes, filled with faith. But not with food see. Hungry we were.  No cucumbers. Or Garlic.
Mick Pam	Bet your breath smelled better though! Mick! Don't be so rude. Bryn's just survived being chopped to pieces, now he's about to starve to death...
Bryn	That's right... Fed up we were. Not fed, but fed up. Hungry see. Nothing to eat. No cucumbers.... Or Garlic.  Told him we did. That Moses. Never elected you know, didn’t vote for him. Stands up there, tells us to leave Egypt. No thought to how we were going to eat. Brought us out into this desert to die. Hungry we were see.
Mick	But you had just seen God use Moses to rescue you from slavery!
Bryn	Well yes, but that doesn’t fill your stomach does it? I told him straight. No cucumbers I said. You tell that God of yours. You tell him. Hungry we were.
Mick	So you complained to the God who had just rescued you – how did that go?
Bryn	Quails and Manna.
Pam Mick	Ooh, Quail – nice bird, very tasty. Didn't we have that at that posh place in Southend? That was pheasant, you've never had Quail. Never had manna either – what is it?
Bryn	Yes. Manna – what is it.
Mick	Not sure I follow, but God gave you this food?
Bryn	Oh yes. Never doubted Him. Every morning He said. Manna. Didn’t keep well mind. Real problem storing it.
Pam Mick	You've got to be so careful with this foreign food. Oh do stop going on! Surely God told you how to keep it?
Bryn	Oh yes. He told us. He said it wouldn’t keep.
Mick	But you tried to keep it?
Pam	Well, of course they did.  No guarantee there’d be any the next day - no shops are there.
Mick	But God had told them there’d be some each day..
Bryn	Well yes, but how can you trust God?
Mick	Well, for a start, He said He would rescue you from Egypt, that He would save you from the army?
Bryn	True, He did.
Pam	And did He?
Mick	Of course He did. No drowning, no chopping into little pieces.
Pam	And you say He promised to feed you every day?
Bryn	He did. Except for the Sabbath.
Pam	That's outrageous! He left you without food on the Sabbath?
Bryn	No, not exactly left us without. He told us there would be double the day before so we wouldn’t need to collect it on the Sabbath.
Mick	So, what did you do?
Bryn	We looked for it on the Sabbath.
Pam	Well, you must be so sure of God's love for you after all that?
Bryn	Oh yes. Completely trusting, no problem there, always knew He’d come through. It’s just that we’re a bit short of water see. Brought us out of Egypt so that we can die of thirst He has. That’s what He’s gone and done. Lulled us into a false sense of security He has. It’s all very well that water parting, quail feeding, manna providing, Sabbath sorting. But what are we going to drink I ask you? Hasn’t thought about that has he? Stuck up Moses with his high and mighty ways. We didn’t vote for him you know...