Humourous stories

Why is it that when someone begins to tell a humourous tale of embaressment and stupidity that your mind begins to bring back things that you'd rather not remember.

Like last week in the airport in Cyprus when I was feeding Jacob and handed him to Barbara when he spewed on me, unfortunatley most of his sick had went over the crotch of my trousers and when I got a couple of baby wipes and began rubbing like mad to clean it, there were a few weird looks. And then after the sick was cleaned, and we were walking about I kept pulling my t-shirt down and holding bags infront to cover the wet patch... i'm sure I looked like some hormonal teenage boy, covering up his lack of control while walking around Anne Summers.

Which reminds me of the time I did go into Anne Summers with my wife to look at lingerie but decided to pick up an outfit and joke about, prettending to want her to get it, only to have a sales assistant approach me to tell me all about how the 'unmentioned' piece of clothing was so brilliant and could be used in both private use for the woman to turn on her guy or she could wear it as a top on its own for going out. (In my mind the only place you'd wear it out would be on a nudist beach but hey). This was a highly embarrassing moment and Barbara made it worse by standing there and laughing at me as my face got redder and redder and I began to sweat with shame untill finally I ran out!

Another funny time was when none of me boxer shorts were dry so I put a pair in the microwave, which seemed to destroy the threads and they were full of holes by the end of the day!

Or there's the many occasions when I exagerate a story and then get caught out or worse; I feel guilty and in submission to conscience go and apologize and set the story straight, this is one of the most humiliating and embarrassing things!

From stupid things i've said and done I wonder sometimes that I can leave my house at all.

Or, even perhaps worse; the stupid things you do and say when you first become a Christian, full of Zeal and empty of knowledge. For me I hang my head in shame and repentance over how I preached A.V. only and tried to persuade friends that they weren't good christians if they read the NIV. Or persuading women to wear hats and telling everyone that they should under no circumstances listen secular music or ever dance under any circumstances.

While I can do nothing about those embaressing things that just happen to you, espicially when you have a baby and you constantly walk around with vomit, milk and dump on you, there are huge steps in making sure that we need not get caught up in silly, stupid and ridiculous issues like the ones I did years ago and mentioned above.
Knowing the Word of God is THE safe-gaurd against making fools of ourselves over trivial, often times foolish and meaningless issues. And while we concern ourselves with the Bibles commands upon us, such as "go and make disciples" i'm not so sure that we'll have any time to spend on whether someone reads a certian translation or listens a type of music, rather the issue becomes do people know the Bible and love God and listen to Him.