The Seventh Day: Eighth 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

The Sev­enth Day is 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!

Wel­come to the Eighth Edi­tion of the Car­ni­val, fea­tur­ing a wide vari­ety of posts from a diverse group of tal­ented writers!

Writ­ing

Claire shares Thoughts on Short Sto­ries from A Writ­ing Blog: Bebo Author. She is spon­sor­ing a short story writ­ing con­test. You can sub­mit an entry through March 21, 2008. Read all the rules here.

Fic­tion

Jenn shares The Keys to Her Future from Mixed Metaphor.net which she describes as a “fic­tional story about a woman who learns that her future is not as she had envi­sioned it, but embraces her new path.”

Home­school­ing / Organization

Laura Williams shares Our Day (Home­school and All) from Laura Williams’ Mus­ings, a look at her family’s daily sched­ule or “how I do it all with a house­hold of seven chil­dren. Included in the post is a link to my menu plans as well.” I stand in awe of Laura’s orga­ni­za­tional and man­age­ment skills. Just read­ing about every­thing they do made me tired.

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Faith

Laura Beut­ler shares A Gift for Us All from Chil­dren & Choco­late and Other Paths to God. She describes the unusual man­ner in which she received an impor­tant mes­sage about a spe­cial gift. There’s a les­son here for all of us!

Viola Jaynes shares Sur­ren­der­ing Heart from Spir­i­tual Things Mat­ter, a beau­ti­ful poem from an enor­mously tal­ented and inspir­ing writer.

Cindy shares God’s Will — Your Will from Super­nat­ural Chris­t­ian. She says, “There is pain in let­ting go of our own will” and explains this was most recently revealed to her again.

Fish­Hawk shares Bit­ter Sweets: Aborted Val­ues from As the Crack­er­head Crum­bles. His unique per­spec­tive on dif­fi­cult and con­tro­ver­sial soci­etal issues is thought-provoking.

Stu­art shares This They Believe from Con­nected Chris­tian­ity. He asks, “If you com­pleted the sen­tence ‘This I believe…’ what would you say?” The answers of three folks in par­tic­u­lar inspired him. Leave him a com­ment, explain­ing what you believe.

Kansas Bob shares Fac­ing Down Fear from An Eye For Redemp­tion. He lists four fac­tors that he con­sid­ers essen­tial to con­quer­ing fear and explains his rationale.

Shawn shares What David Knew: Under Watch­ful Eyes from Peace in the Storm, the third in his six-part con­sid­er­a­tion of Psalm 139:13–18. He says, we are “reminded that God has had His eyes on each of us from the very beginning.”

Cul­ture

David shares 1969 And Life In The City / The Who Come To Town from Vir­ginia Breeze, his mem­oir about the 1960’s and col­lege life.

C.K. shares Chi­nese New Year Cel­e­bra­tion 1/4 (The Parade) from A Sin­ga­porean in Lon­don. Don’t miss his descrip­tion of London’s cel­e­bra­tion of the Chi­nese New Year. Be sure to read the entire four-part series about his expe­ri­ences, writ­ten from his unique perspective.

Sandy Carl­son shares Of Young Boys and the Mys­te­ri­ous Fem­i­nine from Writ­ing in Faith, describ­ing her recent expe­ri­ence with the younger mem­bers of her fam­ily and, in the process, reaf­firm­ing that stereo­types are inap­pro­pri­ate and ridicu­lous because we are all unique.

Pets

Laura Beut­ler shares Eight Things to Know Before You Buy a Bea­gle from Chil­dren & Choco­late and Other Paths to God. “Uno,” a bea­gle, recently won Best in Show at the 2008 West­min­ster Ken­nel Club Dog Show, focus­ing a great deal of atten­tion on the breed. Laura shares some of the pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive attrib­utes of bea­gles, based upon her own expe­ri­ences with “Fred.” It’s a great reminder of the need to select a fam­ily pet care­fully, after con­duct­ing research and con­sid­er­ing the best inter­ests of all fam­ily mem­bers — human, canine, feline, et al.

Health / Wellness

Fit­Buff shares 5 Ben­e­fits of Dark Choco­late — Facts You Need to Know Before Enjoy­ing from FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fit­ness Blog. He claims that the ben­e­fits are real, but “before you go rum­mag­ing through year-old Hal­loween candy and stuff­ing your face with Snick­ers and Toot­sie Rolls, there are a few things you need to know.”

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!

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