7th Day of Christmas 2013: Holy Spirit, and Ernest Varner

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By Ernest @DisneyBritton

"Good Morning Lord" by Ernest E. Varner

On the 7th Day of Christmas, I reflect on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The holy spirit is often referred to as female, and symbolized as bird, wind, fire, and clouds which is why it reminds me of my mother jumping from a plane for her 75h birthday--soaring like a bird in the wind and clouds. The Unity Church's co-founder Charles Fillmore considered the Holy Spirit a distinctly feminine aspect of God, considering it to be "the love of Jehovah" and "love is always feminine". In Hebrew the word for Spirit (רוה) (ruach) is feminine, (as is the word "shekhinah", which is used in the Hebrew Bible to indicate the presence of God, سكينة Sakinah in Arabic language, a word mentioned six times in the Quran). The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude (or courage), knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2-3).