The Seventh Day: Fourth 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: Fourth 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!

I hope that you are hav­ing a peace­ful and rest­ful Sun­day morn­ing and it is my goal to help you enjoy the day! So sit back and enjoy this week’s var­ied entries!

Cul­ture

Sandy Carl­son shares Ways to Say Good-Bye, includ­ing the mean­ing of each word or phrase. Fascinating!

JHS shares What Were They Think­ing? a con­sid­er­a­tion of the Golf Chan­nel / Golfweek débâ­cle, not­ing that “the irony of the tim­ing of this con­tro­versy, i.e., in the days sur­round­ing the com­mem­o­ra­tion of Dr. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy, is lost on few.”

Self-Improvement / Relationships

Albert Foong presents The life that has gone on before: The Per­ils of Com­pas­sion, Part 2 from Urban Monk.

Todd Gold­farb shares Heal­ing From The Inside Out– A Rem­edy To Save The World from We The Change, a dis­cus­sion about how heal­ing from the inside out per­me­ates our lives and society.

Samuel Bryson shares Dis­ci­pline vs. Desire – Is Dis­ci­pline Really Such an Omnipo­tent Virtue? from Total Well­be­ing.

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Belief

GP shares Lessons from Horse Play from Inn­side Mon­tana — Your Home at the Range, an arti­cle about the life lessons we can learn from horseplay.

Sunny shares Con­tin­u­ing to Hope in the face of Dis­ap­point­ment from Dan­de­lions and Day­dreams. “After fac­ing a huge dis­ap­point­ment in try­ing to buy a house, I wrote this post about con­tin­u­ing to hope and mov­ing past dis­ap­point­ment,” she explains.

Sunny also shares John 1: 1–4 In the begin­ning Jesus from Obser­va­tion and Prin­ci­ples. She dis­cusses John 1:1–4 which tells us who Jesus was at cre­ation. She observes that John’s Gospel is “the story of Him ‘who was, and is, and is to come.’”

Dan King shares Lift Him Up from Man­age­ment By God, say­ing, “How impor­tant is it to bring spir­i­tu­al­ity in the work­place? Take a look at what one Proverb says, and learn the ben­e­fits of lift­ing up God at work.”

Laura shares Call Foul or Pray? « Chil­dren & Choco­late and Other Paths to God from Beut­lerBlog­ger.

Tami Boe­siger shares When Words Don’t Come Easy from The Next Step. Tami is among the most tal­ented writ­ers you will find blog­ging. I encour­age you to read her approach to strained or dif­fi­cult relationships.

Blog­ging

Pearl presents Com­ment Away! from :: Inter­est­ing Obser­va­tions ::.

Health and Fit­ness / Humor

Fit­Buff presents How to Eat Less — While Hav­ing Sex! fromTotal Mind and Body Fit­ness Blog, explain­ing that “there’s actu­ally research to back my crazy ‘how to eat less’ din­ner date sug­ges­tion.” Don’t let the title fool you. This isn’t a porno­graphic arti­cle … it is, how­ever, an extremely humor­ous one.

Fam­ily Finances

Kevin Flem­ing presents Dish Net­work Fam­ily Pack­age Review from Satel­lite TV Guru. If you are con­sid­er­ing your options, pos­si­bly con­tem­plat­ing a switch from one provider to another, you will want to read his review.

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 26, 2008, at 6:00 p.m., Pacific Time (note the new dead­line), will be included in The Sev­enth Day: Fourth Edi­tion pub­lished here next Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 27, 2008! Please note these guide­lines: One post per blog will be accepted for each edi­tion of the Car­ni­val. Also, your sub­mis­sion should have been pub­lished dur­ing the week imme­di­ately pre­ced­ing the Car­ni­val. So, for instance, any­thing you pub­lish between Jan­u­ary 19 (yes­ter­day) and next Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 26, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time is eli­gi­ble to be included in next Sunday’s edi­tion of the Car­ni­val (Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 27, 2008).

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