The Seventh Day: Blogging’s Best 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 Blog Car­ni­val “Blogging’s Best” Edi­tion. The Sev­enth Day is designed to pro­vide blog­gers an oppor­tu­nity to high­light their best work and read­ers a chance to get acquainted with some new sites and writ­ers! For this spe­cial edi­tion, par­tic­i­pants were asked to sub­mit new and old posts on any and all top­ics, irre­spec­tive of the orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion date, rep­re­sent­ing the submitter’s very best work.

Please sup­port the blog­gers who have gra­ciously shared their work with us by vis­it­ing their sites and leav­ing a com­ment let­ting them know how much you enjoyed their contribution!

The next edi­tion of the Car­ni­val is sched­uled for May 4, 2008 and it will again be focused on Blogging’s Best. Sub­mit your post by Sat­ur­day, May 3, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific time) to be included in the May 4, 2008, round-up of the best the blo­gos­phere has to offer!

Fam­ily

Jeremy Zongker shares 90 Low Cost or No Cost Activ­i­ties to Enter­tain Your Kids All Sum­mer Long pub­lished at Destroy Debt. There are many great sug­ges­tion here that every par­ent of young chil­dren will appreciate.

Food

Robyn J McCleary shares Food Pre­sen­ta­tion pub­lished at Food for Life.

Finance

Ray­mond shares Tra­di­tional and Roth IRA Con­tri­bu­tion Lim­its and Income Phase Outs pub­lished at Money Blue Book.

Rela­tion­ships

Robert A. Henru shares When it comes to rela­tion­ship, lim­i­ta­tion “sells” pub­lished at Reason-4-Smile Weblog. He the­o­rizes that “sell­ing is too much asso­ci­ated with money. It’s actu­ally more about rela­tion­ship. And in any rela­tion­ship, lim­i­ta­tion ‘sells.’”

JHS shares The Sur­pris­ing End of My Inno­cence pub­lished at Col­lo­quium. She describes an impor­tant life les­son that she learned because she was young, “naïve, inex­pe­ri­enced and obliv­i­ous” and, there­fore, capa­ble of being “duped in a most skill­ful and rep­re­hen­si­ble manner.”

Debra Moor­head shares How to Quit Smok­ing or Help Some­one Quit Smok­ing pub­lished at Debra Moorhead.com. She reports, “I was scared to death to post this arti­cle, afraid of the poten­tial ‘fall­out.’” What does she advise? You must read this excel­lent post in its entirety, but here’s a pre­view: “If you’re lucky enough to not be around smok­ers very much, thank the uni­verse for its progress and when you do have an encounter, send good vibes by say­ing a prayer. Pray for that person’s enlight­en­ment and health. Remem­ber, it’s their choice – be thank­ful for that, because you have the choice to not smoke. What if it were the other way around?”

Spirituality/Belief

Fish­Hawk shares Bitter/Sweets: The Words Of The Word (+) pub­lished at As The Crack­er­head Crum­bles, a sum­ma­tion of the basic prin­ci­ples of belief.

Renae shares 7 Things I Learned in the Church Nurs­ery pub­lished at Life Nur­tur­ing Edu­ca­tion. What did the women find in the tomb on Easter morn­ing? You’ll have to read the post to learn what answer was pro­vided by a young church-goer.

Allen Scott shares Res­cue Me pub­lished at Jour­ney Across the Sky, a beau­ti­fully writ­ten post inspired by oen of my all-time favorite tele­vi­sion series, “Res­cue Me,” star­ring Denis Leary, who also cre­ated, pro­duces and writes the show.

Stu­art shares Feel­ing secure pub­lished at Con­nected Chris­tian­ity. He pon­ders how a modern-day church should respond and react to vio­lence. “Should they rely on guns or God — or both?”

Art / Culture

Clark Bjorke shares Johnny Cash: Fol­som Prison Blues, 1959 pub­lished at Clark’s Picks, a per­for­mance by Johnny Cash and the Ten­nessee Two on Town Hall Party, a local Coun­try Music tele­vi­sion show in 1950’s Cal­i­for­nia. Fol­som Prison is California’s second-oldest and a fas­ci­nat­ing place, com­plete with a museum.

Seabird shares An exhi­bi­tion of rea­son­ably priced art pub­lished at SeaBird Chron­i­cles, some afford­able exam­ples of “what hap­pens when cre­ativ­ity and skill collide.”

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