Hello everyone! It’s hard to believe it's February already. Next month we can look forward to spring! Here is a good, healthy treat to make using no refined sugar.
Almond Joy’s
1½ c. boiling water
2 ¼ c. dates
1 t. salt
¼ t. almond extract
1 c. barley flour
2/3 c. almond butter
3 c. coconut (unsweetened)
Pour boiling water over dates in a blender. When softened add salt and almond extract. Partially liquefy leaving some lumps. In a large mixing bowl place flour and nut butter. Cut together until nut butter is evenly distributed. Add coconut and date mixture. Blend well. Prepare cookie sheets with non -stick spray. Drop onto cookie sheet ( any size) and press an almond (or two) into each one. Bake 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until slightly brown. Yield: 50-55 cookies
To store the cookies, put them in the refrigerator or freezer.
What God created is what He intended for us to eat. His original diet was to nourish, strengthen and build our bodies.
It’s important to recognize that what we feed our children will directly affect their nature, their character, their attitude, their physical being.
Parents should make it their first business to understand the laws of life and health, that nothing shall be done by them in the preparation of food, or through any other habits, which will develop wrong tendencies in their children. How carefully should mothers study to prepare their tables with the most simple, healthful food, that the digestive organs may not be weakened, the nervous forces unbalanced, and the instruction which they should give their children counteracted by the food placed before them. This food either weakens or strengthens the organs of the stomach and has much to do in controlling the physical and moral health of the children, who are God's blood-bought property. What a sacred trust is committed to parents to guard the physical and moral constitutions of their children so that the nervous system may be well balanced and the soul not be endangered! Temp. 184
This tells me what I fix my children may develop wrong tendencies…Wow you mean if I give my child candy that it will make a difference in them following instructions we give them…..it will destroy their nervous systems is what it is saying.
I think it applies to adults as well; we have the same bodies!
Appetite controls and passions are out of control because of our diet. It’s a serious problem in our country today.
The yearly consumption of sugar in 1820 was 8 lbs. per person....less than one T. per person a day. Then in 1990, the average American consumes 140 lbs. of sugar a year, 16 T. or 1 cup a day !!! WOW!!! What a difference!
Those of us who don’t consume that much sugar, someone else is eating our share. I wonder who is eating my share?
Sugar is in everything, all processed foods and even canned vegetables…and more. We are over stimulating and ruining the health of our kids thru the use of sugar alone, to say nothing of the additives, preservatives and colorings and all the other chemicals they are pouring into food that are killing our health and making our spiritual nature benumbed.
Vitamin B is a very important vitamin in the body and it is necessary for vital body functions. It is to control the nervous system, regulate and calm the nerves and to make them function well. Vitamin B is needed to metabolize sugar. What happens then when we consume too much sugar? The body robs the Vitamin B from the nervous system and sends it over to the metabolizing and digesting of the sugar to maintain all the sugar overload that’s coming into the body and then the nervous system is short circuiting. The nerves become frayed, frazzled, and spasmodic. The child becomes very HYPERACTIVE because they don’t have Vitamin B to meet needs of the nervous system and it becomes out of control and children become hyperactive and their attention span decreases.
Through the channel of appetite, the passions are inflamed, and the moral powers are paralyzed, so that parental instruction in the principles of morality and true goodness falls upon the ear without affecting the heart. The most fearful warnings and threatenings of the word of God are not powerful enough to arouse the benumbed intellect and awaken the violated conscience. Temp. 183
Our passions are inflamed and our moral powers become paralyzed…that means that our ability to stand for what’s right when we know its right becomes paralyzed so that parental instruction and the principles of morality and true goodness falls upon the ear without affecting the heart.
When thru the channel of appetite, our passions become inflamed, our moral powers and the moral powers of our children become paralyzed and our instruction to our children fall on deaf ears without affecting the heart, that means no change in character. Don’t we want to change the heart so the character changes?
It’s saying that by what we feed our children we can actually short circuit the Spirit of God the Holy Spirit working in the heart of our children, because of the appetites raging and the passions becoming out of control.
God help us as parents to wake up to see that what we feed our children (and ourselves) is not just hurting their physical body for the moment but it is affecting their moral and spiritual character for eternity.
Look at our nation today. The morality of this nation and our country, the passions and temper, the whole atmosphere, it’s intense, immoral and evil.
God wants us to recognize that what we do as parents in how we feed our children (and ourselves) is having a dramatic affect.
I pray God will help you to make the necessary changes in your diet and in your children’s diet so that you and they can develop good moral and spiritual characters for eternity!
Renee Bushor
