The Seventh Day: Second Edition

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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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You can submit a post to be included in next week’s Carnival by clicking here. Posts submitted by next Saturday, January 12, 2008, at 12:00 p.m. (noon), Pacific Time, will be included in The Seventh Day: Third Edition published here next Sunday, January 13, 2008!

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