4.4 Earth - Solar Side Show

Have you ever considered getting solar panels for you house? They’re expensive in the short term, but save you tons in the long term. I’ve also heard of something called solar shingles.

Here is a video on how solar panels work:

4.3 Soul - Healthy Butter Cookies

Here’s a recipe I created that I’d like to share with everybody. You don’t have to use peanut butter. Any butter will do. Experiment and enjoy!

Steven’s cookie recipe

Chocolate Coconut Hazelnut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

2 tablespoons Coconut manna
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 cup chocolate Hazelnut butter
1/4 cup softened butter or olive oil spread
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions
Combine Coconut manna, honey, chocolate Hazelnut butter, margarine, egg, and vanilla. Mix well.

Add flour, baking soda and salt to above mixture.

Gently roll into small balls by hand. The dough will be very soft.

Place on cookie sheet with parchment paper and flatten with fork dipped in flour.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven until edges are lightly browned (about 7 to 10 minutes).

Set timer. They bake very quick, so don’t bake too long.

Seven minutes is usually long enough.

Makes 2 dozen or less.

4.2 Mind - Proverbs 4

Proverbs 4

18 The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what makes them stumble.
20 My son, pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.
21 Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

4.1 Heart - Who is paying you?

The Proverbs were written over 2600 years ago.

Paul used some of the same language in the book of Romans about 600 years after the Proverbs were written. And to this day it is still relevant. I just noticed it the other day. I decided to share it with you.

Here are the scriptures if you would like to take a look for yourself.

Proverbs 10:16

The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.

Romans 6:16-23

16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.