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Karen Carter <[log in to unmask]>
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I think that is cool Phil. 

--
Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed 
> the Ten Commandments? 

I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is 

IN GOD WE TRUST 
Karen Carter '74 
-KC- Ministries 


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From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> 

> 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. 
> 
> 
> Has He Ever Crossed Your Mind? 
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