Getting ready for Sabbath ~ Hallah Bread

We love making Sabbath special. One thing that Nalani especially loves is making Hallah bread for the bringing in of Sabbath. Here are just a couple pictures of what it looks like. :) 

Nalani ~ Violin

Nalani just loves playing the violin! The Lord has really given her an amazing gift to be able to pick up the piano and violin and play by ear. Here are a few pictures that we got of her. :) 

Excitotoxins ~ Our experience...

As I was studying about excitotoxins I was quite grateful that we eliminated most all of those items awhile ago. I couldn't think of anything that we ate that could possibly contain excitotoxins.

Well…

This morning my mom decided that she wanted me to make french toast for breakfast since I've made so much bread lately. Down stairs she went to get our MoriNu Extra Firm Silken Tofu, which is one of the key ingredients in our recipe. She decided to look at the ingredient list only to find that it has "Soy Isolate Protein!!!"

There went our french toast for breakfast…instead I made pancakes. :)

We are always learning and growing.

Excitotoxins ~ Just the beginning...

"Satan is constantly on the alert to bring the race fully under his control. His strongest hold on man is through the appetite, and this he seeks to stimulate in every possible way. All unnatural excitants are harmful, and they cultivate the desire for liquor. How can we enlighten the people, and prevent the terrible evils that result from the use of these things? Have we done all that we can do in this direction?"—Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 16, 1890 {CD 150.1}

Excitotoxins cause brain cell damage or death within 1-3 hours of consumption, in higher centers of the brain, cognitive thinking, learning, memory, reason, etc. 

"Today, virtually all of the neurodegenerative diseases are now considered to be intimately  related to the excitotoxic process. Seizures, headaches, strokes, brain injury and developmental brain disorders are all intimately related to excitotoxins. " Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. 

How they make hydrolyzed vegetable protein:

It's also referred to as vegetable protein or plant protein. "Made from junk vegetables which are unfit for sale, and especially selected so as to have naturally high contents of glutamate. The extraction process of hydrolysis involves boiling these vegetables in vat of acid. This is followed by a process of neutralization with caustic soda. The resulting product is a brown sludge that collects on the top. This is scraped off and allowed to dry. The end product is a brown powder that is high in three known excitotoxins - glutamate, aspartate, and cystoic acid (which converts in the body to cysteine)"

Found in most all of the processed fake meats, in soup mixes, flavorings, protein drinks, etc. 

"The amount of MSG in a single bowl of commercially available soup in probably enough to cause blood glutamate levels to rise higher in a human child than levels that predictably cause brain damage in immature animals." Olnay, J.W. "Glutamate: A Neurotoxic Transmitter." 

MSG is always in: 

-hydrolyzed veg. protein 

-hydrolyzed or autolyzed anything

-plant protein extract

-sodium & calcium caseinate (found in some firm tofu)

-yeast extract (main ingredient in Marmite)

-textured vegetable protein

Most always in:

-malt extract (in carob chips)

-malt flavoring 

-bouillon

-whey protein

-stock

-natural flavorings

-emes

-soy protein

-soy protein isolate (Braggs is this) 

A few pictures from this summer ~

Nyah

Nyah looking at something under the steps

Looking at Nalani's little book

Nalani and some friends

Picking peas from the garden. I helped with the delivery of the little boy 4 years ago!

The beach...

A dear friends new little baby. 

Nyah playing piano

Nalani and Nyah picking strawberries

Nalani

A flower and peas

A thought from my quiet time ~

As I was reading this morning I came across this quote: "kneeling in faith at the cross, he has reached the highest place to which man can attain."

Isn't that powerful?!

When we realize our nothingness, when our glory is laid in the dust, when we see our true condition and fall helpless at the foot of the cross, Jesus draws us to look up to Him. And as we, beholding Him, contemplate and begin to understand the immense love He has for us then…"with the light that streams from Calvary shining in our faces, we may go forth to reveal this light to those in darkness."

Monarch Caterpillars ~

Each year one of the joys of spring is raising monarch caterpillars. We all love finding them and raising them. Right now we have 13 in all different phases. Here are a few pictures. :) And a few flower pictures, with one of my sweet Tinkerbell.