032425 From the Banks of Burcham Creek...

These are from the archives
For March 24th
Enjoy!

- Hayden Childs


“A glad heart makes a happy face,
But when the heart is sad,
The spirit is broken.”
Proverbs 15:13 NLV

Every great player has learned
Two C’s…
how to concentrate and
How to maintain composure.
- Byron Nelson

One's philosophy is not best
Expressed in words;
It is expressed in the choices
One makes.
In the long run, we shape our
Lives and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And, the choices we make are
Ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Regardless of whom you are
Or what you have been,
You can be what you
Want to be.
- W. Clement Stone

You are never too old to set
another goal or to dream
a new dream.
- Clive Staples Lewis

What a man is contributes much more
to his happiness than what he has,
or how he is regarded by others.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

What is the difference between
an obstacle and an opportunity?
Our attitude toward it.  
Every opportunity has a difficulty,
and every difficulty has an opportunity.
- J. Sidlow Baxter

Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet.
I have just one day,
Today,
and I’m going to be
Happy in it.
- Cecilia Meis

Plenty of people miss
their share of happiness,
Not because they never found it,
but because they
Didn’t stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather

Only those who have learned
the power of sincere
And selfless contribution
experience life’s deepest
Joy … true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Life is a sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus

Being a winner is never an accident;
Winning comes about by design,
Determination and positive action.
- Bob Proctor

Luck affects everything;
Let your hook always be cast.
In the stream where
Uou least expect it,
There will be fish.
- Ovid

Successful people are simply
Those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

The key to success is to focus
Our conscious mind on things
We desire not things we fear.
- Brian Tracy

Move out of your comfort zone.
You can only grow if you are
Willing to feel awkward and
Uncomfortable when you try
Something new.
- Brian Tracy

We cannot become what
We need by remaining
What we are.
- John Maxwell

Concentration and mental
Toughness is the margins
Of victory.
- Bill Russell

Yours is not the less
Noble because no drum
Beats before you when
You go out into your
Daily battlefields,
And no crowds shout
About your coming when
You return from your
Daily victory or defeat.
- Robert Louis Stevenson 

031725 From the banks of Burcham Creek...

From the banks of Burcham Creek…
March 17th quotes archive

Enjoy!

Hayden Childs

***

“Again I saw under the sun
that the race is not to the fast
and the battle to the men of war.
Bread is not to the wise and riches
are not to the men of understanding.
Favor is not to able workers.
Time comes and goes and things
happen for no reason to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 NLV

The race is not
Always to the swift,
But to those who
Keep on running.  
- Hugh E. Keough

May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so
nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

May flowers always line your path
and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you
every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you
in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart
each day your whole life through.
- Traditional Irish Blessing =

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sunshine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons bring
the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

This is the way of peace…
Overcome evil with good,
falsehood with truth,
And hatred with love.
- Peace Pilgrim

Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford

In every person who comes near
you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it,
And your faults will drop off
like dead leaves when their time comes.
- John Ruskin

Any business whose management
Has the foresight to adopt a policy
Which consolidates management,
Employees and the public it serves
In a spirit of teamwork, provides itself
With an insurance policy against failure.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Many can argue that reality
is as it is, but my experience
is that the opposite is exactly true.
Reality is ours for the making.  
- Asara Lovejoy

Don’t wait for extraordinary
opportunities.
Seize common occasions and
make them great.
- Orison Swett Marden

There is always a shortage
of people who get the job done
on time without excuses or grumbling.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Go confidently in the direction
of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest oak was once
a little nut,
Who held its ground.
- Anonymous

The first step toward
change is awareness.
The second step is acceptance.
- Nathaniel Branden

You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an event…
It is a habit.
- Aristotle

The world cares very little
About what a man or woman
Knows;
It is what the man or woman
Is able to do that counts.
- Booker T. Washington

The only opinion about your
Dream that really counts is
Yours.
The negative comments of
Others merely reflect their
Limitations… not yours.
- Cynthia Kersey

The only difference between
A good shot and a bad shot
Is if it goes in or not.
- Charles Barkley

The secret is to have
Eight great players and
Four others who will
Cheer like crazy.  
- Coach Jerry Tarkanian

I don’t count my sit-ups.
I only start counting when
it starts hurting.
That is when I start counting,
Because then it really counts.
That’s what makes you a champion.
- Muhammad Ali

Excellence is not a singular act,
But a habit.
You are what you repeatedly do.
- Shaquille O'Neal

If you say “can’t”
you’re restricting what you
Can do or ever will do.
- Michael Phelps

Everyone wants to leave a legacy,
But it’s not about having a
Building named after you,
Or having a statue.
Your legacy lays in the people you
Have impacted,
And the people you leave behind.
- Tim Tebow

Some people focus on what
They’re going through;
Champions focus on what
They are going to.
- Grant M. Bright

Champions in any field of endeavor
Always rise to the occasion.
Champions see what they can become
Rather than live in the past.
Champions view life as a
self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Reed Markham

True champions are made
When no one is looking.
- Sign hanging in the
Cincinnati Reds
Spring training clubhouse
Sarasota, Florida

A man can be as great as he
wants to be.
If you believe in yourself
and have the courage,
The determination, the dedication,
the competitive drive and if you
are willing to sacrifice the little
things in life and pay the price
for the things that are worthwhile,
It can be done.
- Coach Vince Lombardi

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How do you become better?
There is only one way…
The way of discipline.
- Jocko Willink

The only person you can control is you.
So, focus on making yourself who you
want to be…
Faster. Smarter. Stronger.
Humbler.
Less ego.
- Jocko Willink

There can be no leadership
when there is no team.
- Jocko Willink

People who are successful
decide they are going to be successful.
They make that choice.
They decide to study hard.
They decide to work hard.
They decide to be the first person
to get to work and the last to go home.
- Jocko Willink

When your feelings are screaming
that you have had enough
when you think you are going to
break emotionally,
override that emotion with
concrete logic and willpower that
says one thing…
I don’t stop.
- Jocko Willink

Extreme Ownership is a mindset,
an attitude.
- Jocko Willink

Leadership requires belief
in the mission and unyielding
perseverance to achieve victory.
- Jocko Willink

Edited by H.C.

Jocko Willink is a former US Navy SEAL,
who received the Silver Star and Bronze Star
for his actions in the Iraq War.
He’s now known for his best-selling books and podcast.

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The Ballad of the Illinois Opry – REO Speedwagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SxUfmrWUKI

 

 

031225 From the banks of Burcham Creek...

From the banks of Burcham Creek…

With the Annual College basketball
Conference tournaments and the
NCAA Tournament upon us I thought
I’d dust off an old article from the archives.

- Hayden Childs

***

JESUS IS LIFE

"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
(John 1:4)

Rolf Zettersten wrote an article for Focus on
The Family Magazine, June 1993.
He had attended the NCAA Final Four in March
of 1993 at the Superdome in New Orleans, LA.

80,000 excited fans jammed the Superdome to
watch the semi-finals on Saturday night.
Rolf was seated in front of a large section of
Michigan alumni. 

Every time the Wolverines scored,
they applauded, hooted and screamed like their
lives depended on it.

Many of the fans brought with them signs that
conveyed the cleverest slogans they could invent.

After the Michigan team made a comeback,
one man got up from his seat and began parading
up and down the aisles.

He was holding a large cardboard sign above his
head that read:

"THIS IS WHAT WE LIVE FOR"

While sitting amid this incredible sporting event,
Rolf suddenly had a healthy dose of proper perspective.
He turned to his friend and said,
"Man, I'm sure glad this isn't what I live for."

Friend, what are you living for?

Several years ago, a t-shirt came out in sporting goods
stores that read:

"Basketball is life ... The rest is just details"

I never purchased that shirt.
There is more to life than sports!

Friend, JESUS IS LIFE!

CHRIST'S DEATH IS THE BELIEVER'S LIFE.

"For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Romans 6:23)

Because sin brings spiritual death and separates
us from the life with God,
the removal of sin restores life with God.

"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
old things have passed away;
behold, all things have become new."
 (2 Corinthians 5:17)

God created us for companionship with Himself.

"As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?"
(Psalm 42:1,2)

He gave His Son to pay the penalty for our sin.

"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
(2 Corinthians 5:21)

Jesus died painfully and shamefully on the cross
and was even separated from God because
He was bearing the sins of the world.

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?"
that is "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
(Matthew 27:46)


His death is the believer's life.


MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE.

Our greatest obstacle to genuine life is
preoccupation with material life.

Jesus asked, "Is not life more than food and the
body more than clothing?
(Matthew 6:25)
He said, "Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God."
(Matthew 4:4)

Friend, life is more than food and clothes!

"Take heed and beware of covetousness,
(an insatiable desire for worldly gain)
for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the
things he possesses."

(Luke 12:15)

Without Jesus, who is the bread of life
(John 6:35), worldly living is shallow,
bleak, and hopeless.

Christians consider Christ as our life.

"For you died and your life hidden with Christ in God."
(Colossians 3:4)

The life we live in Christ living in us.

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the
flesh I life by faith in the Son of God who loved me and
gave Himself for me."

 (Galatians 2:20)

HAPPINESS HERE AND HEREAFTER.


The Christian life is the happiest life both now
and forever.

Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life,
and that they may have it more abundantly."
(John 10:10)
"For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is
profitable for all things, having promise of the life that
now is and of that which is to come."
 (1 Timothy 4:8)

Christians receive a hundredfold now in this time ...
and in the age to come, eternal life.
(Mark 10:30)

It is a tragic mistake to think you must give up
real pleasures in the present life to
receive the life to come.

Consider Moses - (Hebrews 11:24-27).

The faithful Christian receives fullness of
fellowship with God both here and hereafter.

Friend, can you say with the apostle Paul,

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain?"
(Philippians 1:21)

Jesus, Oh, Jesus, Do you know Him today?
You can't turn Him away,
Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus!
Without Him, how lost I would be!
 
- Hayden Childs

 

030625 From the banks of Burcham Creek...

From the banks of Burcham Creek…

Today’s post is in honor of
My better-Half’s Birthday.

Happy Birthday…
Lisa

I hope it is as special
As you are.

I am so blessed to
Do life with YOU!

These quotes are from
The March 6th archives.
Enjoy!

- Hayden Childs

***

Love is smiling on
the inside and out.
- Jennifer Williams

Love that is true
never grows old.
- Elben Bano

Love is more than
A feeling;
it's a state of mind.
- Lisa Grude


The Magic of Love…

Love is like magic
and it always will be.
For love still remains
Life's sweet mystery!!
Love works in ways
that are wondrous and strange
and there's nothing in life
that love cannot change!!
Love can transform
the most commonplace
into beauty and splendor
and sweetness and grace.
Love is unselfish,
Understanding and kind,
for it sees with its heart
and not with its mind!!
Love is the answer
that everyone seeks...
Love is the language,
that every heart speaks.
Love can't be bought,
it is priceless and free,
Love, like pure magic,
is life's sweet mystery!!

- Helen Steiner Rice

It's the little things
You do that can make
A big difference.
- Bob Proctor

Nobody made a greater
mistake than he who
did nothing because
he could do only
a little.
- Edmund Burke

Successful people are
Simply those with
Successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

The quality and quantity
Of the service you render,
Plus, the attitude with
Which you render it,
Determine the amount of
Pay you get and the sort
Of job you hold.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Don’t get down on yourself.
Don’t beat yourself up.
It’s the next opportunity
that matters,
Not the previous one.
The previous one matters
Only in that you must
Learn from your mistakes.
But the next one gives
You the opportunity to
Show that you have learned
From your mistakes.
Keep trying until.
- Jim Rohn

Clutter isn't just the
Stuff in your closet.
It's anything that gets
Between you and the life
That you want to be living.
- Peter Walsh

Edited by H.C.

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A "reel" fisherman can tell you
about his first catch!
- Anonymous

A "reel" fisherman has
at least one lure that never
Caught a fish!
- Anonymous

A "reel" fisherman has
more than two rods with
Different reels on each.
- Anonymous

I love any discourse of rivers,
and fish and fishing.
- Izaak Walton

I’m just a simple guy.
I love being at my house with my family.
I love playing dominos and card games
and hunting and fishing.
That’s just what I like to do.
- Jase Robertson, Duck Dynasty

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If you are thankful,
What do you do?
You share.
- W. Clement Stone

The way to develop the best
that is in a person is by
appreciation and encouragement.
- Charles Schwab

When we focus on our gratitude,
the tide of disappointment goes out
and the tide of love rushes in.
- Kristin Armstrong

The chief idea of my life
is the idea of taking things
With gratitude,
and not taking things for granted.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one who achieves success
does so without the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge
This helps with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Edited by H.C.

Chip speaks to Bobby Cox

Longtime Manager of the Atlanta Braves