I have been doing some google searches today on goose bumps, which is often
now spelled as one word, but I was wondering about it.  Why?  Well, I know
it can occur due to fear one might suddenly experience and that fear can
come in many types.  Of course, everybody has probably experienced goose
bumps when listening to music you really like.  Try, however, generating the
goose bump feeling and physical response by just thinking about doing it.  I
don't think it is possible or at least I have never heard of anybody saying
they could make it happen just by thought alone.  Anyhow, I was sitting at
my computer a few minutes ago and thinking about the greatness and power of
God.  I can't remember why I was thinking that way but something came to
mind, I stopped what I was doing, and just sat and thought about God for a
few seconds.  I bet it wasn't even more than 10 seconds.  I smiled when, in
my thoughts, I realized, based upon whatever it was I was thinking about,
how big God was.  Suddenly, I began tingling all over just like I have when
listening to music that I thought was really cool for some reason.  I have
tried capturing these goose bump moments, forcing my mind to immediately
focus on what was happening to me at the moment, and I have noticed that I
am at a level of sudden keen awareness of emotions.  Not my emotions but the
person doing the music, for example, and that it is almost as if I can feel
their emotional input to the music.  Wow.  I can't believe this but it just
happened again as I talked about it.  sometimes it occurs when we suddenly
are chilled and my air conditioner is running but I am not cold.  Have you
ever consider the emotions of the Creator?  I mean, the one who gave us
emotions in the first place.  What do you bet that the emotions we have are
very similar to the feelings of God.  Say, there is a title for a good
theological book.  The Feelings of God.  Interesting.  Or I suppose it could
be called the Goose Bumper.  Publishers are using all types of weird titles
now I have noticed.  So, have you had goose bumps, or goose flesh, or goose
pimples when praying or thinking about God?  By the way, the sensation I
just experience while typing this and was trying to describe what I was
thinking about God?  The goose bumps started at my head, flashed down my
arms and clear down my legs.  Normally it just occurs on my arms.
Apparently the term comes from what a plucked goose, or perhaps chicken,
skin looks like, or feels like to the touch.  This reminds me of an old
joke.  Do you know what you get when you cross a chicken with a banjo?  A
bird that can pluck itself.  I told my dentist that one day when he was
getting ready to drill on me.  He busted out laughing and so did his
assistant standing on the other side of me.  He said, Phil, I'm not for sure
what that means.  I told him I didn't know what it meant either but I heard
it on a children's program on TV one day that my kids were watching so the
joke had to be ok.

Phil.


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