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Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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1. I Am a Rose of Sharon

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... tension that is maintained throughout the book. These verses contain a combination of sensory images. The lilies evoke both sight and scent, the apple tree sight and taste, and the reference to shade has a tactile sense. Raisins and apples suggest taste. The man’s arms under the woman’s head and embracing her are tactile for the central pair, but evoke a visual image for the audience. The use of double refrain lines in verses 6 and 7 suggests to those who divide the book into major sections that this ...

2. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... blind. And the same method can be applied to other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf to-morrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several ...

3. The Healing Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... room and embraced his father with arms and legs. That was the kind of hug that heals a lot of things. It was a therapeutic touch. There are, however, other kinds of touching. My unabridged dictionary listed 25 uses of the word touch that go beyond the tactile experience. These include such words as affect, impress, move, inspire, contaminate, stir to pity, and so forth. Jesus asked, "Who touched me?" It is a question we also would do well to ask, and its answer will remind us that each of us has much for ...

4. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are functionally ansomic – functioning without a sense of smell. Some people are born anosmic; some people develop anosmia often from head injuries – like Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's, which is why he says his ice cream has so many tactile and other sensory characteristics. Some people drift into anosmic states by repressing their sense of smell. Some years ago The New York Times commemorated Valentine's Day by doing a "Science Times" feature spread on what it called "the second-sexiest organ ...

5. A Way of Seeing

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... on sends information besides the usual taste and texture stuff through the tongue to the brain. The device consists of a video camera worn on a strap on the forehead. That camera converts images to pixels and sends them to a small box called a "Tactile Display Unit," which also is attached to the forehead strap. That unit converts the pixels to electrical impulses that flow down a wire inserted into the mouth, and tingle the tongue. From there, the tongue's natural sensors carry the image to the brain. This ...

6. A Miracle Story

Acts 10:23b-48

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Leonard Sweet

... spelled out” into her hand. At first Helen Keller didn’t get it. These random motions being pressed into her palm did not connect with experiences she felt. But Sullivan refused to give up. She kept spelling words. She kept giving “tactile-verbal” references for everything Helen encountered. Finally there was a “watershed” moment, which was indeed water-powered. Helen’s breakthrough moment was as she was having water pumped over her hands and Anne Sullivan kept spelling the word for “water ...

7. Consecration of the Firstborn

Exodus 13:1-16

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... but not unrealistic hope (see comment at 3:8). The “month of Abib” also looked forward, since it was the first calendar month of the Canaanites, among whom they would live. It meant “new grain” and began on the spring equinox. To “eat matzah” was a tactile aid in the logistics of personalized remembering. It was a reminder of the hurried departure from Egypt that they would be rehearsing year after year. On that day tell your son, “I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out ...

8. Let Him Kiss Me

Song of Songs 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... with feminine adjectives and the addressees are labeled daughters of Jerusalem. The imagery shifts to an emphasis on the visual (dark, lovely), although the reference to the sun, from which one can almost feel the heat, maintains the sense of the tactile. The speaker is apparently darker-skinned than the other characters; darkened by the sun may suggest either a light-skinned person with suntanned skin or someone naturally dark-skinned who comes from a sunny region. Interpreters disagree on whether the ...

9. Loving Made Real

John 13:1-17, John 13:31-38

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David & Marian Plant

... . The memories linger of a time when touch was not something to be isolated and infrequent from the daily pleasantries of life. Multiple children, the demands of a household, and a culture that began to push aside touch as important meant the amount of tactile encounters became less frequent. A lifetime later, as she would be almost limp in my arms, wet and slippery, attempting to keep some deep down imbedded sense of modesty to herself, the touch was foreign. It was awkward. That is how Jesus’ touch must ...

10. All Dressed Up

Luke 12:32-40

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Lori Wagner

... our original “nakedness” and to express ourselves instead through material means. The very essence of communication in fact relies on using symbols for expression. Language employs verbal symbols. Music, dance, art, and clothing all convey symbols that are visual, tactile, or emotional. Every one of these wordless forms of expression still transmits connection, the hope of resonance, and carries with it the unique identity of the bearer. Clothing perhaps more than anything is a form of “wearable art ...

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