GOOSEBUMPS

It's funny how being cold doesn't necessarily make me have goosebumps. My mum is tired of asking me if I'm okay. You know why? Because when people are cold, I'm warm, when people are hot, my temperature is cold. When you don't expect my temperature to be high, it would be without me necessarily being sick. Whilst cold gets into people via their heads, I have to protect my legs and leave my body, and I'm good.😄 God is just wonderful with how He creates. 😊

When my late granddad sold his house and bought another, the new house was close to a big bush which used to be a forest. There was a cut tree in the compound, and it had soldier ants in them. We didn't notice this at first, but during the rainy season, the ants came. 

Chai God! They flooded the environment, the house, our doors, our windows, our bathrooms, etc., and goosebumps became my friend. Solomon in the bible wasn't wrong about ants in any way.I was even the first person to see a snake in that compound but it didn't give me goosebumps, but common soldier ants ‍🙆‍♀️ gave me. Nna! The thought of the army of soldier ants is even giving me goosebumps right now. 

Anyways, in the fear, I decided to face my fear and do a research on how I could get rid of soldier ants. I tried everything I saw that I could and eventually at some point they didn't give me goosebumps anymore. Soldier ants were a bye bye situation after a while, and as much as I still get goosebumps once in a while from a cluster of ants, I faced my fear and goosebumps just became a natural way of reminding me there was danger, but it didn't make me want to stay away from dealing with what was to be dealt with.

So what's your fear? What gives you goosebumps? Have you fought with it yet? You either choose to live with allowing your fear scare you or you choose to scare your fear away even in your fear.

My Thoughts.

Ala O. Wilcox

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