The Seventh Day: Second 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 Sev­enth Day: Sec­ond Edi­tion, 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! It’s Sun­day, so get com­fort­able and relaxed with your favorite bev­er­age and snack, and enjoy read­ing all of this week’s great entries! There are a wide vari­ety of top­ics covered!

Blog­ging

Lin Bur­ress shares 2008 Social Net­work­ing Tips for All You Whin­ers from Tell It Like It Is, ask­ing “What does your blog offer that would make any­one want to visit, com­ment, sub­scribe or link to your blog?” She argues that the key to suc­cess­ful blog­ging is build­ing valu­able per­sonal rela­tion­ships with one’s fel­low bloggers.

Shari Thomas shares All about Entre­card … What’s it doing for me from Ask Me Why … Work From Home. She shares details about the increased traf­fic she has enjoyed on her sites since join­ing Entre­card. (Have you joined? Make sure you drop your card using the wid­get in the right sidebar!)

Home and Family

Patri­cia shares Sooo Not Cool! from Craves, Fav’s & Raves Humor, the story of a truly cringe-worthy moment in her par­ent­ing life. For­tu­nately, both she and her son both have a healthy per­spec­tive on fam­ily life — and sense of humor!

Renae shares I Quit Read­ing Bet­ter Homes and Gar­dens from Life Nur­tur­ing Edu­ca­tion, explain­ing that her house may not belong in a decorator’s show­case, but it is a home. This post’s pro­fun­dity is its sim­plic­ity, so don’t miss it.

The Envi­ron­ment

Lucynda Riley shares Its a solar car from The Fru­gal Tree Hug­ger. Check out a vehi­cle of the future!

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Belief

Kansas Bob shares The Jour­ney of the Spir­i­tual Heart from An Eye For Redemp­tion, a med­i­ta­tion on the over-used word “jour­ney” with Bib­li­cal insight.

Tami Boe­siger shares Because You Say So from The Next Step. She has adopted “Because you say so” as her motto for 2008 and chal­lenges her read­ers to do the same. Will you join her?

Rod­ney Olsen shares Clos­ing the book on 2007 from The Jour­ney — Life : Faith : Fam­ily. Exiles: Liv­ing Mis­sion­ally in a Post-Christian Cul­ture by Michael Frost was his favorite book from 2007. You can lis­ten to his inter­view with the author, as well as read about some of his other top choices from last year.

Sandy Carl­son shares What Have the Faith­ful Done? from Wrigin in Faith, a look back at some of the moments in 2007 when “churches have demon­strated a desire to make right their own mis­takes and to be part of an ongo­ing con­ver­sa­tion about the nature of life itself.”

Self-Improvement / Relationships

GP shares Cheers for Amaz­ing Cus­tomer Ser­vice from Inn­side Mon­tana — Your Home at the Range, offer­ing some great advice about engag­ing oth­ers in con­ver­sa­tion. If every busi­ness owner pro­vided the kind of ser­vice GP describes, the world would cer­tainly be a love­lier and more effi­cient place.

Ther­a­py­Doc shares At the Check-Out from Every­one Needs Ther­apy, two lit­tle anec­dotes about atti­tude that pack a pow­er­ful life-lesson punch.

SJ Yee shares The Best of RichGrad.com in 2007 from Per­sonal Devel­op­ment for the Book Smart, a col­lec­tion of his best per­sonal devel­op­ment arti­cles from 2007. You’ll want to book­mark this col­lec­tion and return to them over time. There are some real gems in his collection.

Lucynda Riley also shares Where did the image of gru­some hal­loween witches come from? from The Witchy Woo, offer­ing her his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive on how witches came to be por­trayed as “green faced, wart cov­ered [and] wiry haired.”

Nneka shares 2007 Lessons Learned from Bal­anced Life Cen­ter, a dis­cus­sion of seven life lessons she learned last year. She believes that “God is all good all the the time every­where present” and dis­cusses how she is learn­ing to man­i­fest that real­ity in her life.

Thank you all for your excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions this week!

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