020825 From The Banks of Burcham Creek...

 From the banks of Burcham Creek…
Superbowl LIX Edition
Eagles’ vs Chiefs

I am pulling for Jalen Hurts and
The Philadelphia Eagles…

Jalen played for The University of
Alabama for Coach Saban.

Many doubted if he could make it in
The NFL and now he is playing in his
2nd Super Bowl!

Go Eagles!

- Hayden Childs

***

If you’re not in the parade,
you watch the parade.
That’s life.
- Coach Mike Ditka


The ones who want to achieve
and win championships motivate
themselves.
- Coach Mike Ditka

Losers quit when they’re tired.
Winners quit when they’ve won.
- Coach Mike Ditka

Here’s what I tell anybody and
this is what I believe.
The greatest gift we have is the
gift of life. We understand that.
That comes from our Creator.
We’re given a body.
Now you may not like it,
but you can maximize that body
the best it can be maximized.
- Coach Mike Ditka


What you feel spiritually.
I think a lot of that has to do
with it.
If you have no spiritual life,
chances are everything is going
to aggravate you,
you’re going to fly off the handle
at everything and that’s what
I did in the past.
I’ve kind of got that under
control now.
- Coach Mike Ditka

***

Superbowl 2025 Eagles vs Chiefs

Hayden’s Favorites…

Go Eagles!

***

Unbelievable Baked Buffalo Wings

•    Ingredients…
1 lb. chicken wings
¼ crushed red pepper flakes
¼ cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon salt
1 bottle Your Favorite Wing Sauce

•    Directions…
Fill a large pot halfway with water
Add the first four ingredients
Bring water mixture to a boil then boil for 15 min.
Transfer wings to an oven safe container with
Aluminum foil coated with cooking spray.
Bake wings on “Broil” for 7 minutes on each side
Transfer wings to a crock pot then cover
Wings with your favorite wing sauce on low
Heat to keep the wings warm.

***

Slow Cooker Mexican Seven Layer Dip

•    Ingredients…
1 (15-ounce) can fat-free refried beans
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 large white or yellow onion, finely diced
1 green bell pepper, finely diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 jalapeno, minced (optional)
1 Tablespoon cumin, divided
1 Teaspoon chili powder, divided
1 Teaspoon paprika, divided
1 (8-ounce) package reduced-fat (Neufchatel) cream cheese
1 (8-ounce) tub reduced-fat sour cream
2 Cups salsa, any variety
1 Cup shredded reduced-fat Cheddar or pepper Jack cheese

•    Directions…
Coat the liner of a slow cooker with nonstick spray.
Mix the refried beans with 1/2 cup water,
then spread into the bottom of the slow cooker.
Top with the beans, vegetables, garlic and half the spices.
In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese,
sour cream and remaining spices. Spread over the vegetables.
Top with the salsa and sprinkle on the cheese.
Cook on low for up to four hours,
until the cheese is melted, and the beans are warm.

***

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43678611/can-philadelphia-eagles-qb-jalen-hurts-provide-super-bowl-lix-win-quiet-doubters

Keep Pushin – REO Speedwagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxSQXbj6Go

012925 From the banks of Burcham Creek...

From the banks of Burcham Creek…

From the January 29th Archives…

"Continue to ask, and God will give to you.
Continue to search, and you will find.
Continue to knock, and the door will open
for you.
Yes, whoever continues to ask will receive.
Whoever continues to look will find.
And whoever continues to knock will have
The door opened for them."
- Matthew 7:7-8

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act,
But also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Life doesn’t run away from nobody.
Life runs at people.
- Joe Frazier

I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product to my decisions.
- Stephen Covey

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic;
It takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell

When you live for a strong purpose,
Then hard work isn’t an option.
It’s a necessity.
- Steve Pavlina

Every man and woman are born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

“He (Coach Calipari) just said, good win.
He introduced us to his high school coach,
His college coach.
Like he said, it was a great win for us.
A lot of people had us losing this game
So we prepared. One thing he said is we
Prepared really well for this game.
Our shoot around was good,
The two practices before this game were
Really good. Our practices and the way we
Prepared were a really big factor in why
We won this (West Virginia) game.”
- Kevin Knox

Develop an attitude of gratitude.
Say thank you to everyone you meet
For everything they do for you.
- Brian Tracy

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you
The strength, the patience, and the passion
To reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman

If there's one thing that will stop people
From achieving their goals, it's a wall.
However, as I see it, without a wall there's
No place to build a door.
- Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your life is your message to the world.
Make sure it’s inspiring
- Anonymous

When you believe in what you’re
Doing and use your imagination
And initiative,
You can make a difference
- Samuel Dash

You’ve got to know what your magic is.
How else will you fully share your gifts
With others and enrich the world for
These precious years that you live?
- Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Winning isn’t everything,
But it sure beats anything
That comes in second.”
- Coach Paul Bryant

“I don’t know what class is,
But I can tell when one has it,
You can tell it from a mile away.”
- Coach Paul Bryant

"If you believe in yourself,
Have dedication and pride,
And never quit,
You’ll be a winner.
The price of victory is high
But so are the rewards."
- Coach Paul Bryant

***

I Believe – Phil Wickham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOx_gUY4bQY

012525 From The Banks of Burcham Creek...

 From The Banks of Burcham Creek…

I am back posting after a week of being
Down with the Flu. Missed a couple of
Days of work at NAL. Thankfully I am
Back in the saddle again.
Have a great day and Go Cats!
Lisa and I attended the UK – Vandy
Game on 01/13/2018 in Music City.
As a member of B.B.N. I bleed blue.
Win or lose… It’s a Kentucky Thing…
- Hayden Childs

***

“ by saving us from the punishment of sin.
It was not because we worked to be right with God.
It was because of His loving-kindness that He washed
our sins away.
At the same time He gave us new life when the
Holy Spirit came into our lives.

God gave the Holy Spirit to fill our lives through
Jesus Christ, the One Who saves.

Titus 3:5-6

***

When I Have Time…

Poet: Miriam Brown

When I have time so many things I'll do
To make life happier and more fair
For those whose lives are crowded now with care;
I'll help to lift them from their low despair,
When I have time.

When I have the time the friend I love so well
Shall know no more these weary toiling days;
I'll lead her feet in pleasant paths always,
And cheer her heart with words of sweetest praise,
When I have time.

When you have time! The friend you hold so dear
May be beyond the reach of all your sweet intent;
May never know that you so kindly meant
To fill her life with sweet content,
When you had time.

Now is the time! Ah, friend, no longer wait
To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer
To those around whose lives are now so dear;
They may not need you in the coming year
Now is the time.

***

From the January 25 Archives…

Happiness in the present is only shattered
By comparison with the past.
- Douglas Horton

If a man does not know what port, he is
Steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

No pessimist ever discovered the secret
of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on
One’s lips is a sign that the person down
Deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey

When you reach an obstacle,
turn it into an opportunity.
You have the choice.
You can overcome and be a winner,
Or you can allow it to overcome you
and be a loser.
The choice is yours and yours alone.
Refuse to throw in the towel.
Go that extra mile that failures
refuse to travel.
It is far better to be exhausted
from success than
To be rested from failure.
- Mary Kay Ash

Shouda, coulda, and woulda
won’t get it done.
- Coach Pat Riley

(Kentucky basketball stand-out, a member
Of the 1966 NCAA tourney Runner-up team,
N.B.A. Coach with Lakers, Knicks and Heat)

We look ahead and not back in the
rearview mirror.
- Larry "Chipper" Jones

Why not chase what some see as impossible?
Why not believe in yourself?
Why not dare to be great...
Even if it means being different?"
- John Smoltz

You play the game to win the World Series.
Cy Young's are nice, they really are.
They're great and I'm proud of them...
But easily the biggest thing I've
Accomplished Is getting that World Series
Ring.
- Greg Maddux

The way a team plays as a whole
Determines its success.
You may have the greatest bunch
Of individual stars in the world,
But if they don't play together,
The club won't be worth a dime.
- George Herman "Babe" Ruth

It took me seventeen years to
Get 3,000 hits in baseball.
I did it in one afternoon on
The golf course.
- Henry "Hank" Aaron


... Even after you've just
Won the Super Bowl…
Especially after you've
Just won the Super Bowl…
There’s always next year.
If "Winning isn't everything;
It’s the only thing,"
Then "the only thing" is nothing…
Emptiness, the nightmare of life
Without ultimate meaning.
- Coach Tom Landry


***

My Old Kentucky Home…

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay;
The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By ‘n’ by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,
On meadow, the hill and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart,
With sorrow, where all was delight,
The time has come when the darkies have to part,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darky may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow;
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, ’twill never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus:
Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the Old Kentucky Home far away.
- Stephen Foster

***

Blue Moon of Kentucky – Elvis Presley 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJq3AZ4uXqE

011325 From the Banks of Burcham Creek...

 A Time for Everything…

“There is a special time for everything.
There is a time for everything
that happens under heaven.

There is a time to be born,
and a time to die;
a time to plant,
and a time to pick what is planted.

There is a time to kill,
and a time to heal;
a time to break down,
and a time to build up.

There is a time to cry,
and a time to laugh;
a time to have sorrow,
and a time to dance.

There is a time to throw stones,
and a time to gather stones;
a time to kiss,
and a time to turn from kissing.

There is a time to try to find,
and a time to lose;
a time to keep,
and a time to throw away.

There is a time to tear apart,
and a time to sew together;
a time to be quiet,
and a time to speak.

There is a time to love,
and a time to hate;
a time for war,
and a time for peace.”

- Solomon
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 TLV

***

Time Is…

Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity.

- Henry VanDyke

***

There Is A Time…

There is a time to work and play,
A time to eat and sleep;
A time to study and to pray,
A time to laugh and weep;
A time for fellowship that's sweet,
A time for sacred song;
But never is there time to treat
A human being wrong.

There is a time to lift men up
And help them on life's road;
A time to drain their bitter cup
And share their heavy load;
A time to bless them with our grace
And boost them all along;
But never is there time and place
To treat our fellows wrong.

There is a time to help men seek
Our God who saves the soul;
A time to show them that the meek
Shall reach life's highest goal;
A time to help them turn aside
And leave the wicked throng;
But never did our God provide
A time to treat men wrong.

- Walter E. Isenhour

***

No Time For God...

No time for God.

what fools we are to clutter up
our lives with common things,

And leave without heart’s gate
the Lord of life and life itself.

No time for God is soon to say
no time to eat or sleep,
or love or die.

Take time for God,
or you shall dwarf your soul.

And when the death angel comes
knocking at your door,

A poor,
misshaped thing you’ll be to step
into eternity.

No time for God?

That day when sickness comes
or trouble finds you out,

And you cry out to God,
will He have time for you?

No time for God?

Someday you’ll lay aside this mortal self
And make your way to worlds unknown.

And when you meet Him face to face,

Will He…
should He…
Have time for you?

- Norman L. Trott


***


Humanity has one really
effective weapon,
And that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

So let us go forward quietly,
each on his own path,
Forever making for the light.
- Vincent Van Gogh

The wise man does not lay up
his own treasures.
The more he gives to others,
the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Building a better you
Is the first step to building
A better America.
- Zig Ziglar

It's not what you've got,
It’s what you use that
Makes a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
 
Famous archer, Howard Hill
Won all the 267 archeries
Contests he entered.
He could hit a bull’s eye
At 50 feet, then split first
Arrow with the second.
Would it be possible for you
To shoot better than him?
YES, if he were blindfolded!
- Zig Ziglar

Many marriages would be better
If the husband and the wife
Clearly understood that they
are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar

Any man can help create a child
But it takes a real man to love,
Cherish and raise that child
- Nishan Panwar

My father used to play with my
Brother and me in the yard.
Mother would come out and say,
"You're tearing up the grass."
"We're not raising grass,"
Dad would reply.  
We're raising boys."
- Harmon Killebrew

My father always told me,
Find a job you love and
You’ll never have to work
A day in your life.
- Jim Fox

Success usually comes
To those who are too busy
To be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so
Much.
- Helen Keller

The key to happiness
Is having dreams;
The key to success
Is making them come
True.
- James Allen

Individually we are
One drop,
Together we are
An ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Edited by H.C.

***

Sunset Listen Through - Hymn of Heaven
(Acoustic Sessions) – Phil Wickham


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOIAn43v4o

011125 From the Banks of Burcham Creek...

From the Banks of Burcham Creek…

Lisa and I like most of you enjoyed the snow day
Off from work yesterday, we sat by the fire pit a bit
And walked around our place on Burcham Creek.
Our dog Bella enjoyed the day too…

Yesterday was also my Dad’s Birthday I spoke
To him via telephone we had a nice visit this
Past Sunday with him and Doris my stepmother
In Corinth, MS.

Thankful to our God that he is still with us.

The late Toby Keith was inspired to write a song
When he asked actor Clint Eastwood what kept
Him active and going strong.

Eastwood replied,
“I don’t let the old man in”.

Keith would write the song and it
was also used In Eastwood’s movie “The Mule”.

I am attaching the song as well as this post
In honor of my dad, Rex H. Childs, Sr.

- Hayden Childs

***

Charles Spurgeon's Daily Devotions

The Eleventh of January

From Spurgeon's "Faith's Check Book"

Faith Sets the Bow


“It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
 that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;”

 Genesis 9:14

Just now clouds are plentiful enough, but we are not afraid
that the world will be destroyed by a deluge.

We see the rainbow often enough to prevent our having any
such fears.

The covenant which the Lord made with Noah stands fast,
and we have no doubts about it.

Why, then, should we think that the clouds of trouble,
which now darken our sky, will end in our destruction?

Let us dismiss such groundless and dishonoring fears.

Faith always sees the bow of covenant promise whenever
sense sees the cloud of affliction.

God has a bow with which He might shoot out His arrows
of destruction.

But see, it is turned upward!

It is a bow without an arrow or a string.
It is a bow hung out for show, no longer used for war.

It is a bow of many colors, expressing joy and delight,
and not a bow blood-red with slaughter or black with anger.
Let us be of good courage.

Never does God so darken our sky as to leave His covenant
without a witness, and even if He did,

we would trust Him since He cannot change or lie or in any
other way fails to keep His covenant of peace.

Until the waters go over the earth again,
we shall have no reason for doubting our God.


***

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake
it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”

Aristotle,
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath

Aristotle’s philosophy encourages stepping
outside one’s comfort zone as part of pursuing
eudaemonia — human flourishing.

He emphasizes that achieving excellence and
virtue often require effort, discomfort,
and rational action beyond habitual or
pleasurable routines.

EXERCISE…

How has taking on life’s challenges and stepping
outside your habitual and pleasurable pursuits
provided you some of the more beautiful aspects
of living?

Where and when can you continue to step out into
some of the chillier aspects of life to discover
other kinds of beauty awaiting you?

- Barry Demp


***

“Generosity is not a loan to repay or a
debt to settle. It’s a gift to appreciate.”

Adam Grant,
American organizational psychologist and bestselling author

Adam Grant’s book, Give and Take, is one of my favorites.
If you have yet to read it, today’s quote could be one of
the top nuggets to summarize its wisdom.

Through his extensive research of givers, takers,
and matchers, it’s the givers of the world who seem to
lead the most richly rewarding lives.

Perhaps the best way to show our appreciation of the
generosity of others is simply to acknowledge it.

EXERCISE…

I hope you will take Adam’s advice and give the
generous people in your life your sincere appreciation
for their many gifts.

- Barry Demp



***


Don’t Let the Old Man In – Toby Keith
2023 People’s Choice Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFfQDqY6mC4

010825 From the Banks of Burcham Creek...

From the Banks of Burcham Creek…

Abraham Lincoln's
Favorite Devotionals
January 8

Complete in Christ

"For in Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead [a] bodily;

[a] in bodily form

and you are complete in Him,
who is the head of all
[a] principality and power."

[a] rule and authority

- Colossians 2:9, 10 NKJV


Thy saints on earth,
and those above,
Here join in sweet accord:
One body all in mutual love,
And thou their common Lord.
Yes, thou that body wilt present
Before thy Father's face,
Nor shall a wrinkle or a spot
Its beauteous form disgrace.

- The Believer's Daily Treasure

***

From the January 8th quotes
Archives…

You will never be greater
than the thoughts
That dominate your mind.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Those who are lifting the
world upward and onward
are those who encourage
more than criticize.
- Elizabeth Harrison

Don't say you don't have
enough time.
You have exactly the same
number of hours per day
that were given to Helen Keller,
Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Dreams come a size too big
So that we can grow into them.
- Josie Bisset

The one who tries to get something
For nothing generally winds up
Getting nothing for something.
Napoleon Hill Foundation

However difficult life may seem,
There is always something you
Can do and succeed at.
- Stephen Hawking

If you go to work on your goals,
Your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan,
Your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build
End up building us.
- Jim Rohn

Circumstance does not make the
man;
It reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

A little more persistence,
A little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Eventually we all have to accept
Full and total responsibility for
our actions,
Everything we have done,
and have not done.
- Hubert Selby Jr.

Don’t look back;  
You’re not going
That way.
- Mary Engelbreit

See the light in others and
Treat them as if that is all
You see.
- Wayne Dyer

There's a reason I swam five straight
Years and didn't take a single day off.
There are reasons why I swam every
Holiday, every Christmas, every birthday.
I was trying to be as prepared as I could,
And I tried to see what I could really do
And what my potential was.
I just really did kind of whatever it took.
- Michael Phelps 

(Most decorated Olympic Swimmer

of all time)

If you want to live a happy life,
Tie it to a goal, not to people or
Things.
- Albert Einstein

Where justice is denied,
Where poverty is enforced,
Where ignorance prevails,
And where any one class
Is made to feel that society
Is in an organized conspiracy
To oppress, rob, and degrade them,
Neither persons nor property will
Be safe.
- Frederick Douglass

I never doubted not only that
I would get out, but also that
I would prevail in the end and
Turn the experience into the
Defining event of my life,
Which, in retrospect,
I would not trade…
- James Stockdale

Commenting on his 8 years
As a prisoner of war in Vietnam,
During which he was tortured
Over 20 times.

It doesn’t matter what
You are ranked until
The end.
- Coach Nick Saban

I don't think it's about
Who you play,
I think it's about who
You are.
- Coach Nick Saban

The formula for success is
Every guy can make a difference
For the entire team in whatever
His role is.
And to do it right,
To get it right,
Is a critical factor in being
Successful.
- Coach Nick Saban

***

www.Daisys-Place.org

***

Scarecrow – John Mellencamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFquMneMe8&list=PLDNtAuXIhbEP9BXw5UGdsZTBLFZV_oPoD

010525 From the Banks of Burcham Creek Sunday Edition...

 A New You

How would you like a brand new you in this
New Year of 2025?

Such is not an unreasonable desire or possibility.

In fact, it is God’s intent to eventually
“Make all things new” in the “new heavens and new
earth” (Rev. 21:5, 1).

Until that time, the Lord is preparing a people
who are said to be “born again … of water and the
Spirit” (John 3:3, 5).
    
In the process of the new birth, we become
children of God and receive the Spirit of Christ,
entitling us to address God as our Father (Gal. 4:6).

A truly new you are not through New Years resolutions,
but only in Christ:

“If any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature; old things are passed away…
all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

Newness of life is not found in just being a good
neighbor, a good husband or wife, or respectable
person, or even in just being religious.

Jesus expressed His purpose in coming into this world
when He told His disciples, “I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”

(John 10:10).

The gospel (good news) by which we receive this life centers upon

Jesus’ dying upon the cross for our sins, being buried, 

and raised to life, as witnessed to us through His apostles

(1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

The apostle Paul also made it plain that this
justification is available to us through faith in Christ, saying,

“Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through the

Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).


Justification by faith involves repentance and baptism, 

coming forth from the watery grave of baptism into
“Newness of life” (Rom. 6:1-6).


Mere New Year’s resolutions will not accomplish this,
but a personal commitment to Jesus Christ,
the Son of God in faith and obedience to His word,
as Peter explained it:

“Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit… being born again…

by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”

(1 Pet. 1:22-23).

Have you yet received this new life?

- Ron Bartanen

Edited by H.C.

***
 

I just love Phil Wickham’s song…
The Jesus Way…

A Beautiful song with
a powerful message!


Friend,
Will You Choose
The Jesus Way?

“And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I will attract all people toward Me.”

John 12:32


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fhv4arL3yk