The Seventh Day: Inaugural Edition

On the sev­enth day God had fin­ished his work of cre­ation, so he rested from all his work. And God blessed the sev­enth day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

Gen­e­sis 2:2–3

Wel­come to the Inau­gural Edi­tion of The Sev­enth Day, a weekly blog car­ni­val designed to pro­vide blog­gers an oppor­tu­nity to show­case their best work and read­ers a chance to get acquainted with some new sites and authors.

The Car­ni­val is off to a great start, as evi­denced by the won­der­ful posts sub­mit­ted this week on a wide vari­ety of topics:

The Hol­i­days

James shares To a Home­less Man and His Dog, Merry Christ­mas from JCME Free­lance Writ­ing. James describes an encounter with a name­less indi­vid­ual that he still thinks about from time to time. I’m con­fi­dent that it will res­onate with you just as it did with me.

Holly shares Give the gift of a home this hol­i­day from Every­thing and Any­thing. She is an inte­rior design stu­dent who is exhibit­ing grat­i­tude and “giv­ing back” this hol­i­day sea­son by sup­port­ing Habi­tat for Human­ity.

Sandy Carl­son shares a beau­ti­ful “video of images of the moon that she shot on Christ­mas morn­ing, accom­pa­nied by lovely, peace­ful music called Joy in the Morn­ing.

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Belief

Bob­bie shares from 40 Shades of Pink. 2007 was a try­ing year, but Bob­bie remains faith­ful and thankful.

Karen Lynch shares New Year’s Cur­ricu­lum from Live the Power. Karen sets forth the “basic require­ments for a broad Lib­eral edu­ca­tion to achieve a degree in Cre­at­ing your Best Life.” I rec­om­mend print­ing and post­ing these course out­lines near your desk so that you can remind your­self of this les­son plan through­out the year.

The Witchy Woo shares Wicca: Satan’s Lit­tle White Lie from The Witchy Woo about a book by that titled that she dis­cov­ered. She expresses her opin­ion about it, as well as lots of other things in her brand new blog.

Par­ent­ing / Family

Lin Bur­ress shares Tech­nol­ogy and Chil­dren — A Wake Up Call For Par­ents from Telling It Like It Is. She speaks to an issue that is on many par­ents’ minds: “How can the non techno-savvy par­ent ‘crit­i­cally exam­ine the impact of tech­nol­ogy’ on their chil­dren if they are clue­less about tech­nol­ogy and com­put­ers?” If, like me, your kids are more tech­no­log­i­cally pro­fi­cient that you are, you need to read this post!

Tami Boe­sigershares Share and Share Alike from The Next Step. Tami offers “some­thing light-hearted for your first edi­tion” that will leave you laugh­ing if you are a par­ent because you will relate to her family’s predicament!

Blog­ging

Jon Swift shares Best Blog Posts of 2007 (Cho­sen by the Blog­gers Them­selves) from Jon Swift.
Jon asked all the mem­bers of his blogroll to sub­mit a link to what they thought was their best post of 2007. Jon was over­whelmed when more than 150 blog­gers responded, observ­ing that “[n]ot even Con­doleeza Rice could have pre­dicted the shock and awe you will feel at the sheer mag­ni­tude of the tal­ent out there, of which this is just a small sampling.”

Fic­tion

Jenn H. shares The Let­ter from Mixed Metaphor.net, which she describes as “a fic­tional story about a woman com­ing to grips with the choices she made in her youth, the state of her life, and the direc­tion she wants the remain­der of her jour­ney on earth to take.”

Prod­ucts / Services

Bruce K. Holling­drake shares The Fine Art of Book Pric­ing from The Book­shop Blog. Whether you are sell­ing or buy­ing books online, Bruce’s pro­vides use­ful guid­ance on how to deter­mine the mar­ket value of a book. It’s an impre­cise sci­ence, as you’ll see.

fahmi shares List of Com­pa­nies Sell­ing and Ser­vic­ing Pre­fab House Design from New Dig­i­tal Archi­tec­ture Mag­a­zine on Archi­tec­ture and Inte­rior. Stop by and check out the pho­tos of some beau­ti­ful homes.

Thank you to all who par­tic­i­pated this week either by shar­ing your tal­ent with us or vis­it­ing the par­tic­i­pants and let­ting them know that you appre­ci­ate their efforts!

You can sub­mit your con­tri­bu­tion to next week’s Car­ni­val by click­ing here. Posts sub­mit­ted by next Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 5, 2008, at 12:00 p.m. (noon), Pacific Time, will be included in The Sev­enth Day: Sec­ond Edi­tion pub­lished here next Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 6, 2008!

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