The Seventh Day: Ninth 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 Ninth Edi­tion of the Sev­enth Day Blog Car­ni­val, a weekly event designed to pro­vide blog­gers an oppor­tu­nity to show­case their best work and read­ers a chance to get acquainted with some new sites and authors!

A big “thank you” goes to every­one par­tic­i­pat­ing this week either by sub­mit­ting a post or sup­port­ing those who shared their work! Be sure to visit the sub­mit­ters’ sites and leave a com­ment let­ting them know how much you enjoyed their contribution!

Writ­ing / Blogging

Tiffany Colter shares Writ­ing Career Coach: A Pleas­ant sur­prise and How I Got Here Part 2 from Writ­ing Career Coach. She dis­cusses a recent “pleas­ant sur­prise” and recounts early writ­ing experiences.

JHS shares Your Online Writ­ing Life: Pro­tect Your Rep­u­ta­tion — and Future (Part One) from Col­lo­quium, the first in a series con­sid­er­ing the inter­sec­tion between online behav­ior and real life suc­cess, begin­ning with the selec­tion of an appro­pri­ate email address.

Fic­tion

Jenn shares Her Debut from Mixed Metaphor.net which she describes as “a fic­tional story about youth­ful dreams and life­long friends. A woman recon­nects with old friends and a long-suppressed part of her life.”

Claire shares Do You Need An Agent? from Bebo Author. “After the story is fin­ished you have a choice. Is an agent a good idea?” Claire con­sid­ers that ques­tion.
Fam­ily

Renae shares Super­mom Exposed from Life Nur­tur­ing Edu­ca­tion, a refresh­ingly can­did dis­cus­sion of her short­com­ings as a par­ent. She’s in ample company.

Spir­i­tu­al­ity / Faith

Sandy Carl­son shares Luc Frey­manc: Pas­sion, Pen, and Ink from Writ­ing in Faith. Make sure that you watch the video that Sandy cre­ated uti­liz­ing the artist’s drawings.

Suzie Cheel shares Aren’t We Lucky! from The Abun­dance High­way, explain­ing, “Some days magic hap­pens so we can reflect on all the bless­ings we have in our life.” What are you thank­ful for today? Drop by and let Suzie know!

Fish­Hawk shares Bitter/Sweets: Civil Rights from As the Crack­er­head Crum­bles. Not afraid to tackle the most dif­fi­cult issues, this week he con­sid­ers mar­riage irre­spec­tive of sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion and immigration.

Peter shares The Bible and tithing: To give or not to give — Part 1 from Bible Money Mat­ters, the first of a multi-part con­sid­er­a­tion of whether tithing is Bib­li­cally mandated.

Debra Moor­head shares My Intu­ition Saves a Child’s Life from Debra Moorhead.com. Debra shares a story that has a very happy end­ing because she heeded her own advice: “Lis­ten to your spirit.”

Stu­art shares Who am I? No, really from Con­nected Chris­tian­ity. He won­ders, “Why are we so fake all the time? Is being hon­est and authen­tic really that hard?” What do you think? Stop by and share your opin­ion with Stuart.

Viola Jaynes shares Cre­ative Expres­sions from Spir­i­tual Things Mat­ter. Are you angry? Do you some­times feel rage? If so, you are totally nor­mal. Read Viola’s insight­ful dis­cus­sion about chan­nel­ing those emo­tions so that you can learn and grow from them.

Self-Improvement

Karen Lynch shares A Pow­er­ful Ques­tion from Live the Power. Imag­ine that you are on your deathbed. Look­ing back on your life, you ask your­self, “Was my life a com­plete Suc­cess?” What can you do now to make sure that you are happy with the answer?

Summy shares How to Suc­ceed With­out Really Try­ing from Suc­cess Mak­ing Machine. She pro­vides tips on mount­ing an auto­mated sys­tem that will assure we achieve the suc­cess we crave.

Cul­ture

Gat­tina shares Rock ‘n Roll: The Start of a New Gen­er­a­tion from Writer Cramps. She explains that “rock ‘n roll changed a whole gen­er­a­tion into one now copied by our chil­dren and grandchildren.”

Busi­ness

James D. Brausch shares Lack of Results from Inter­net Busi­ness Blog, offer­ing his approach to help­ing busi­ness own­ers stop con­fus­ing activ­ity with accomplishment.

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, March 1, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) will be included in The Sev­enth Day: Tenth Edi­tion pub­lished here next Sun­day, March 2, 2008!

Please note these guide­lines: One post per blog on any topic 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 Feb­ru­ary 22 (yes­ter­day) and next Sat­ur­day, March 1, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time is eli­gi­ble to be included in next Sunday’s edi­tion of the Car­ni­val (Sun­day, March 2, 2008).

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