Some days I feel like Michael Scott (Steve Carell from NBC’s the Office). You know the well intentioned idiot. The one who exists with a foot shaped mouth.

I’m often misunderstood by those around me. I like to kid, joke, mess around with people and some take offense to it. Though, let it be known: I don’t joke with people that I don’t like or consider my friend. I ignore those people. I tease constantly with my friends, so know this… if I tease, it’s because I consider you a friend. Life is too hard to not laugh at it.

If I ignore you. Well, you do the math.

My oh my! Um. Yeah. Uh….

There’s not much to say for this one. I know I’ve had my share of foot in the mouth situations, but this takes the cake.

But I’ll share a doozie of my own. I was preaching about the virtues of Mary, the mother of Jesus. I was going from the scripture when the angel appears to Mary and she was afraid. So I proceed to go off into a rant on angels. I was ripping our culture’s view of either fat little babies with wings or long haired women as angels. In the Bible, they are creatures to be feared. Men fall down shaking in their presence, etc.

So I’m ranting on angles and how ridiculously we like to portray them. Then, I began to rip on the tv show,Touched by an Angel. And I happened to say, “and why would God use a stupid woman.”

Now, I fully well meant that the view of a soft cushy feminine angel depicted in the show is so far from who angels are scripturally. And the “stupid woman” remark was aimed at Roma Downey and her awful, cheesy portrayal of an angel. That’s what I meant, but boy, it didn’t come out wrong.

Any great foot in the mouth stories from you?