Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

| Lily

Here is our favorite recipe for healthy, gluten-free banana chocolate chip muffins!

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.

2. Rub a butter wrapper on muffin cups or otherwise grease them so the muffins won’t stick.

3. Over a large bowl, sift together dry ingredients and gently stir to combine.

100 grams cloud 9 flour
100 grams Western family flour
120 g brown sugar

1 ml salt
5 ml baking soda
5 ml baking powder
3 x 5 ml cinnamon

4. In a small bowl, mix together wet ingredients:

2 eggs
125 ml milk
125 ml olive oil

160 g banana, mashed
120 g chocolate chips

5. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Mix until dry ingredients are just moistened.

8. Pour into muffin cups. Makes 6 large muffins. Bake 35 minutes on the top rack, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffins comes out cleanly.

9. Remove muffins from the pans and place on wire racks to cool.

10. Wash the dishes while muffins are baking to save time! The total time required is about 1 hour.

Carrot Chocolate Chip Muffins

| Lily

Here is our favorite recipe for healthy, gluten-free carrot chocolate chip muffins!

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.

2. Rub a butter wrapper on muffin cups or otherwise grease the pans so the muffins won’t stick to them.

3. Over a large bowl, sift together dry ingredients and gently stir to combine.

100 grams cloud 9 flour
100 grams Western Family gluten free 1-1 flour

1 ml sea salt
5 ml baking soda
5 ml baking powder
2 x 5 ml cinnamon

4. In a medium bowl, mix together wet ingredients:

2 eggs
125 ml milk
125 ml olive oil
120 g brown sugar

160 g carrots, grated
120 g white chocolate chips.

5. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Mix until dry ingredients are just moistened.

6. Pour into muffin cups. Makes 6 large muffins. Bake 35 minutes on the top rack, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffins comes out cleanly.

7. Remove muffins from the pans and place on wire racks to cool.

8. Wash the dishes while muffins are baking to save time! The total time required is about 1 hour.

Julius Sumner Miller: Physics Videos (for all Ages!)

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“How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls. I am Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business.”

Julius Sumner Miller was the youngest of nine children, born in Massachusetts to Latvian and Lithuanian parents. He graduated with a Master’s degree in physics in 1933. At first he worked as a butler, but was later offered a place in the Physics Department of Dillard University in Louisiana. In 1950 he visited Albert Einstein. In 1952, he joined the he joined the Physics Department of El Camino College in California.

In 1959 he began hosting “Why is it So?” in California, which later became “Demonstrations in Physics”. Later, he appeared on other shows and commercials, and published books on questions from his shows. He died in 1987 of leukemia.

Born: May 17, 1909

Died: April 14, 1987

ALBUMS:

  • Professor Julius Sumner Miller (Professor Wonderful) Relating Stories of Isaac Newton (Walt Disney Productions 1964)
  • Professor Julius Sumner Miller (Professor Wonderful) Relating Stories of Galileo (Walt Disney Productions 1964)
  • Professor Julius Sumner Miller (Professor Wonderful) Relating Stories of Benjamin Franklin (Walt Disney Productions 1964)
  • Professor Julius Sumner Miller (Professor Wonderful) Relating Stories of Michael Faraday (Walt Disney Productions 1964)

BOOKS:

  • Millergrams: Some Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds, Ure Smith, 1966
  • The Second Book of Millergrams: Some More Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds, Ure Smith, 1967
  • Quiz Questions in Physics, Horwitz-Martin, Australia 1967
  • Physics Fun and Demonstrations, Central Scientific Company, 1968
  • Why It Is So, ABC books, 1971 ISBN 0-642-97296-6
  • Why It Is So: Heat and Temperature, ABC books, 1973 ISBN 0-642-97496-9
  • Why It Is So: Sound and Electricity & Magnetism, ABC books, 1973 ISBN 0-642-97584-1
  • Why It Is So: Mechanics, Heat & Temperature, Sound and Electricity, ABC books, 1978 ISBN 0-642-97523-X
  • The Days of My Life: an autobiography, Macmillan, 1989. ISBN 0-333-50337-6

DEMONSTRATIONS IN PHYSICS:

  • MECHANICS:
  • Lesson 1: The Idea of the Center of Gravity
  • Lesson 2: Newton’s First Law of Motion
  • Lesson 3: Newton’s Second Law of Motion
  • Lesson 4: Newton’s Third law of Motion
  • Lesson 5: Energy and Momentum
  • Lesson 6: Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles
  • Lesson 7: The Simple Pendulum, Oscillating Things
  • Lesson 8: Adventures with Bernoulli
  • Lesson 9: Soap Bubbles and Soap Film
  • Lesson 10: Atmospheric Pressure: Properties of Gases
  • Lesson 11: Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters
  • Lesson 12: The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things
  • Lesson 13: Archimedes’ Principle
  • Lesson 14: Pascal’s Principle: Properties of Liquids
  • Lesson 15: Levers, Inclined Planes, Geared Wheels and Other Machines

For more videos, check out the Julius Sumner Miller YouTube channel.

Aileen Fisher

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Aileen Fisher was a writer of children’s picture books and poetry, as well as biographies, Bible themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. In 1978 she was awarded the second National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.

Born: September 9, 1906, USA

Died: December 2, 2002, USA

Poetry collections:

  • The Coffee-Pot Faces, McBride Company, 1933
  • Up the Windy Hill: A Book of Merry Verses with Silhouettes, Abelard Press, 1953
  • My Cat Has Eyes of Sapphire Blue, Crowell, 1973
  • Feathered Ones and Furry, HarperCollins, 1979
  • Rabbits, Rabbits, Harper & Row, 1983
  • Always Wondering: Some Favorite Poems of Aileen Fisher, HarperCollins, 1991
  • You Don’t Look Like Your Mother, Mondo, 2001
  • I Heard a Bluebird Singing; Cullinan, Bernice (compiler); Boyds Mills Press; 2002

Natural history:

  • All on a Mountain Day Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1956
  • Going Barefooted, Crowell, 1960
  • Summer of Little Rain, Thomas Nelson, 1961
  • Where Does Everyone Go?, Crowell, 1961
  • Listen, Rabbit, T. Y. Crowell, 1964
  • In the Woods, In the Meadow, In the Sky, Scribner, 1962
  • In the Middle of the Night, Crowell, 1965
  • Valley of the Smallest: The Life of the Shrew, T. Y. Crowell, 1966
  • Feathered Ones and Furry, Harper Collins, 1979
  • The Story Goes On, Roaring Brook Press, 2005

Fiction:

  • A Lantern in the Window, T. Nelson, 1957
  • Going Barefoot, T. Y. Crowell, 1960
  • Secret in the Barrel, Scholastic Books, 1965
  • Best Little House, T. Y. Crowell, 1966
  • My Mother and I, T. Y. Crowell, 1967
  • We Went Looking, T. Y. Crowell, 1968
  • Clean as a Whistle, T. Y. Crowell, 1969

Source: Wikipedia – Aileen Fisher

Upside Down

| Lily

It’s funny how beetles 
and creatures like that 
can walk upside down 
as well as walk flat.

They crawl on a ceiling 
and climb on a wall 
without any practice 
or trouble at all.

While I have been trying 
for a year (maybe more)
and still I can’t stand 
with my head on the floor. 

~~ Aileen Fisher

The Furry Ones

| Lily

I like–
the furry ones–
the waggy ones
the purry ones
the hoppy ones
that hurry,

The glossy ones
the saucy ones
the sleepy ones
the leapy ones
the mousy ones
that scurry,

The snuggly ones
the huggly ones
the never, never
ugly ones…
all soft
and warm
and furry.

~~ Aileen Fisher

Baked Chicken Strips

| Lily

Place sliced chicken breasts in a baking pan. Lightly cover with bread crumbs or cornflakes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. Top with some olive oil or butter pieces.

Bake 45 minutes at 400* F, or until done, with golden crumbs.

Easy Green Salad

| Lily

Wash, trim, and slice: one head of romaine lettuce, a little green cabbage, some sprouts, a cucumber, and one or two bell peppers. Grate one or two large carrots, and top with dried cranberries.

Serve with your favorite salad dressing.

Roasted Root Vegetables

| Lily

Line a baking pan with parchment paper.

Trim and slice: carrots, beets, potatoes, and a rutabaga. Pour on some olive oil, or place on top some butter pieces. Sprinkle with salt and Italian seasoning.

Set oven to 400* F, and bake for 40 minutes, or until golden brown.

In The Beginning

| Lily

The lights of the city gleam and glow
In the misty purple dusk,
Bursting out of the grimy globes
Like tropical fruits from the husk:
A myriad sparkling orbs of light, —
Violet, golden, scarlet, white, —
Blazing up at the stars of night.

But the light was not in the globes;
Man’s hand has led it there,
His power, his thought, the wonder wrought,
Captured and chained the flare;
And the light obeys his will,
The mind of man and his skill.

But back of the light is the power house,
Where the great wheels tireless turn,
Where the pulleys lift and the gearings shift,
And the roaring fires burn.
And back of the power the mine,
Where the toiling slaves of the Lamp
Burrow like moles in the black pit- holes
In the dust and the deadly damp.

And back of the mine are the buried trees
Where the strong winds laid them low,
Charred by the fires of centuries,
Smoldering deep and slow;
The days of the Lord are a thousand years,
The eves and the morns of the circling spheres,
And a thousand thousand lingering days
Passed over the trees and the hidden blaze.

And back of the charred trees are the green,
When the columnar shafts rose high;
And back of the forest the white-hot sun.
With its cords of the heat and the moisture spun
Drawing the seedlings out of the earth,
Up and up to the sky.

And back of the sun is the Voice, that spoke
Unto the light, and the light awoke;
From the dateless dawning of Time it rings,
From the dim, forgotten beginning of things;
And back of the Voice is the Word;
And the formless void heard
And the face of the deep was stirred.
And back of the Word is omnipotent Thought,
Omniscient Spirit, in power that wrought,
Infinite, Triune Creator, who brought
Light from the darkness and Life from the clod;
In the beginning, God.

~~ Annie Johnson Flint, 1866-1932

The Amber Lily – Out of Doors: Nature Songs, by Annie Johnson Flint

Psalm 19

| Lily

The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
2 Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.

In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.
6 Its rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the other end;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Source: Bible Gateway

The Story of Creation

| Lily

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night.

So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Then God said, “Let there be an uninterrupted space in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the uninterrupted space, and divided the waters below from the waters above; and it was so. God called the uninterrupted space Heaven.

So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let dry land appear”; and it was so. God called the dry land Earth and the gathered waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. The earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So the evening and the morning were the third day.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the uninterrupted space of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the uninterrupted space of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the uninterrupted space of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, across the face of the uninterrupted space of the heavens. So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind;” and it was so. God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the seas, over the birds of the air, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His Own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves about on the earth.”

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.

So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all the work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

~~ Genesis 1:1-31 and Genesis 2:1-3 , New King James Version

Download File: The Story of Creation

14 Conversation Starters to Try This Week

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1 . What is your idea of a perfect morning?

2. If you could play a musical instrument at a professional level, what would it be?

3. What is the most interesting thing that has happened to you today?

4. What is your favorite room in our house and why?

5. What was one of the nicest things someone ever said to you?

6. If you could do anything you would like, what would you do?

7. What did you learn today?

8. What is your favorite day of the week and why?

9. If you were completely blind but could somehow see for one hour each week, how would you spend that time?

10. If you could have whatever you wanted for dinner what would you choose?

11. In what way would you like to serve the Lord when you’re older?

12. Share what you think is special about older people.

13. What is your favorite Bible verse and why?

14. Share a happy memory.

Download File: Questions001

Quote of the Day – 16

| Lily

One day at a time,
and the day is His day;
He hath numbered its hours,
though they haste or delay.
His grace is sufficient;
we walk not alone;
As the day, so the strength
that He giveth His own.

~~ Annie Johnson Flint, 1866 – 1932

Glyphosate and Gluten Intolerance

| Lily

Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance

ABSTRACT

Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, skin rashes, macrocytic anemia and depression. It is a multifactorial disease associated with numerous nutritional deficiencies as well as reproductive issues and increased risk to thyroid disease, kidney failure and cancer. Here, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup®, is the most important causal factor in this epidemic. Fish exposed to glyphosate develop digestive problems that are reminiscent of celiac disease. Celiac disease is associated with imbalances in gut bacteria that can be fully explained by the known effects of glyphosate on gut bacteria. Characteristics of celiac disease point to impairment in many cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are involved with detoxifying environmental toxins, activating vitamin D3, catabolizing vitamin A, and maintaining bile acid production and sulfate supplies to the gut. Glyphosate is known to inhibit cytochrome P450 enzymes. Deficiencies in iron, cobalt, molybdenum, copper and other rare metals associated with celiac disease can be attributed to glyphosate’s strong ability to chelate these elements. Deficiencies in tryptophan, tyrosine, methionine and selenomethionine associated with celiac disease match glyphosate’s known depletion of these amino acids. Celiac disease patients have an increased risk to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has also been implicated in glyphosate exposure. Reproductive issues associated with celiac disease, such as infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects, can also be explained by glyphosate. Glyphosate residues in wheat and other crops are likely increasing recently due to the growing practice of crop desiccation just prior to the harvest. We argue that the practice of “ripening” sugar cane with glyphosate may explain the recent surge in kidney failure among agricultural workers in Central America. We conclude with a plea to governments to reconsider policies regarding the safety of glyphosate residues in foods.

Source: Samsel, Anthony, and Stephanie Seneff. “Glyphosate, Pathways to Modern Diseases II: Celiac Sprue and Gluten Intolerance.” Interdisciplinary Toxicology 6.4 (2013): 159–184. PMC. Web. 17 Aug. 2018.