The Seventh Day: Third 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: Third 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 is a beau­ti­ful Sun­day morn­ing, so sit back, relax, and enjoy all of this week’s entries from a group of tal­ented blog­gers broach­ing a wide vari­ety of subjects!

Blog­ging

Saedel shares Improve­ment Using Addi­tion By Sub­trac­tion from Planet Saedel, explain­ing the var­i­ous tech­niques he is employ­ing to improve his site.

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Belief

Samuel Bryson shares The Mean­ing of life (and other triv­ial con­cerns!) – An Exis­ten­tial­ist Approach from Total Well­be­ing. He argues that “to find mean­ing in life we must take full respon­si­bil­ity for our own lives and through liv­ing life, thus, we cre­ate mean­ing.” Do you agree?

Sandy Carl­son shares Beware the Spir­i­tual Vam­pire from Writ­ing in Faith. “Spir­i­tual vam­pires will pull you into their dark­ness before you’ll ever draw them into the light,” she tells us. Hav­ing known quite a few of these crea­tures in my life­time, this post really res­onated with me — many of you will also relate.

Lexi Sun­dell shares Shirley posted at Ener­gies of Cre­ation, a poem she wrote for her friend, an artist who died almost 12 years ago.

Dan King, Guest Blog­ger on the Hori­zon, also known as Bible Dude, shares Life is Short from On the Hori­zon. Don’t miss his mov­ing obser­va­tion about a life that ended too soon.

Self-Improvement / Relationships

Todd Gold­farb shares Heal­ing from the Inside Out — A Rem­edy to Save the World from We the Change: Devel­op­ment for Con­scious Peo­ple. He posits that whether you want to save the envi­ron­ment, a rela­tion­ship or some­thing else, you must begin the process of heal­ing within yourself.

Kings­ley Tagbo shares How to Over­come Pro­cras­ti­na­tion in Eight Easy Steps: The Fastest Way to Learn Tech­ni­cal Skills or Get a Job from The Fastest Way to Learn Tech­ni­cal Skills or Get a Job.

Bon­nie Krueger shares How To Be Happy With Your Debt from Whale­Hook Loans. Our atti­tude impacts every aspect of our life — includ­ing our finan­cial circumstances.

Alex Mar­lin shares Do You Know If You’re A Lov­ing Par­ent? from Life Improve­ment Tips For the Wise Few. He includes a great list of seven char­ac­ter­is­tics of lov­ing par­ents to facil­i­tate a search­ing inter­nal inven­tory by each of us who has children.

Pol­i­tics / Opinion

Kansas Bob shares Polit­i­cal Ide­al­ism from Kansas Bob. Bob is strug­gling to redis­cover the ide­al­ism he once felt which is evi­dent from the def­i­n­i­tion of the word incor­po­rated into this post. Check it out.

Health and Fitness

Fit Buff shares Aver­age Men — How Do You Mea­sure Up? from Fit Buff dot com: Total Mind and Body Fit­ness, say­ing, “Men love to mea­sure them­selves against oth­ers and engage in com­pe­ti­tions when­ever they can.” Check out the sta­tis­tics pro­vided by Fit Buff if you want to see how close to “aver­age” you are.

GP shares Keep­ing Sta­ble on the Trail from Inn­side Mon­tana — Your Home at the Range. “When it comes to rid­ing lessons and endurance rid­ing,” she tells us, “there are a lot of rules that can help you stay safe around horses.”

Thank you all for par­tic­i­pat­ing this week either by sub­mit­ting a post or sup­port­ing those who shared their work by vis­it­ing their site and leav­ing a com­ment let­ting them know how much you enjoyed their contribution!

Inter­ested in host­ing a future edi­tion of The Sev­enth Day? Let me know what Sun­day you would like to host the Car­ni­val on your site using the Con­tact Form!

You can sub­mit a post to be included in next week’s Car­ni­val by click­ing here. Posts sub­mit­ted by next Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 19, 2008, at 12:00 p.m. (noon), Pacific Time, will be included in The Sev­enth Day: Fourth Edi­tion pub­lished here next Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 20, 2008!

Wel­come back to On the Hori­zon! So glad you’re vis­it­ing again. Be sure to leave a com­ment and add any posts that you like to the var­i­ous social book­mark­ing sites using the links just below the posts. Thanks for stop­ping by!

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