January 3
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On the Ninth Day of Christmas
By Tresta Neil
Called to Learn
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . .
ladies dancing. What are they dancing about? Are they celebrating the coming home of their missionary? I know I am. 🙂 The ninth day is to help us remember the nine fruits of the spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” The gifts of the spirit are tools used to make the tree more fruitful. The purpose of a tool is to bring forth the fruits. For example, these tools/values can help change a man’s heart causing him to repent.
| The ninth constellation is Taurus, the Bull. He is a white wild ox with two large, golden horns. He is charging forward. He symbolizes the tribe of Joseph and his two sons as the horns. The Bull also represents Christ as the Lord of Hosts making ready the Second Coming. |
The Family, a proclamation to the world contains nine paragraphs and lists nine principles to help make families successful. Nines are associated with growth and procreation. Mitosis, cell division, takes place with centrioles which are made of nine parallel tubes in a circle. Sperm is made of nine twisted threads. It takes nine months to develop a baby in a womb. Tet is the number nine in Hebrew. It was anciently written as a closed basket representing boundaries, keeping the good within and the bad out. It also reminds us of the walls of a home, where we allow goodness to come in and evil to stay at bay.
Nine is a square number created by three rows of three. It is also a triangle number.
On the ninth day of Christmas, My Father gave to me
nine spiritual gifts,
eight new levels,
seven complete cycles,
six celebrations,
five things of power,
four family members,
three great desires,
two directions …
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