A Smoky Mountain HI

Here is a journey I make each day. Time flows on this side of eternity. I have aged as gracefully as reasonable as can be be expected, and yet feel not a day older in my mind. As I begin a life in the Smoky Mountains I hope you will share my journey as well. www.kleincabin.com

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Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

Retired summer 2010. I am married (wife, Carol, 55 years) with two married children and four grandchildren...one Toy Poodle. Presently live in Tennessee or Florida but spending summers in our cabin in the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg. Five + acres, three streams, and two ponds. Taught college 13 years Florida, Alaska and Tennessee, wife also a teacher. She teaches computer, ABE, GED etcetera. I was the evening supervisor of an adult education school of about 900 students. Minister of counseling at New Hope Fellowship Church of the Nazarene.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

August 11, 2007

Spend less time searching for a blessing and more time on being a blessing.

Forgiveness is one of the pillars of marriage.

Parenting is for humility and grandchildren are its reward.

Quit tormenting yourself with yesterday.

Spy on the righteous, they won’t mind.

June 30, 2007

If it is difficult for you to be pleasant, pray.

Hope is the freedom to begin again.

Pray high and bend low.

Remember that God made you better than you think He did.

All worry is a waste of faith.


June 29, 2007

Better to forgive too often than not often enough.

Thankful people, are the happiest people.

Spend more time on solutions, than blame.

Feeling sorry for yourself tends to make you, sorry.

Become an aggressive Christian, pray always and believe more.

June 28, 2007

How can you flee so great a salvation?

To make your mark on tomorrow you need to start today.

In the middle of conflict remember why you got married.

If it were so easy you would have done it the first time.

You can be victimized without remaining a victim.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

June 27,2007

While fear is the lack of faith, faith is the only tool to overcome fear.


Frankness must still be delivered in love.


You must be a parent until your child makes you their friend.


Mindsets are both foundations and barriers of truth.


An unperformed act of kindness is negligence.

Monday, June 25, 2007

June 26, 2007

Never underestimate your own selfishness. nor that of others.

Marriage is the ultimate friendship.

Anxiety is the fear of fear coming your way.

Finding yourself amused is silent laughter.

To find what you have lost you must know what you lost.


Sunday, June 24, 2007

June 25,2007

Love should always involve privilege and responsibility.

Live today as you would want to if it was your last.

A good parent must allow the child to explain their perspective of where their life is.

Parent cannot remember when they were 13 nor can they understand being 13 in our time without a child’s help.

“You will be forgiven as your forgive” …start with yourself!

Saturday, June 23, 2007

June 24, 2007

Men think love is respect and women think love is feeling.

A loving family is the envy of the rich family.

Give more that you take.

When you get up each morning think, “what can I do that will make it easier the one I love to be happy today?”

Never argue after sundown.

Friday, June 22, 2007

June 23,2007


Without Faith, reality has little value.

Hear what you are listening to and listen to what you hear.

Sense is not made, but understood.

Everyone who is free is so because of the sacrifices of another.

One day God will Goggle up your life.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

June 22, 2007

Family is a difficult gift, you have to love them when you do not want to and they must do the same for you!


In the end, happiness is how you think about what you thought.


I prefer nice jerks to mean jerks, but pray for each the same way.


It is good to go from amazing Faith to knowing Faith.


Stretching your Faith will not make it thinner, only stronger.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

June 21.2007

Resilience is stubbornness used as intended.

Most of our blindness is caused by our unwillingness to see.

Christianity is not just a fire escape.

Mark your life with compassion and happiness will overtake you.

Honestly only effects honest people.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

June 20, 2007

Determination is the best motivation.

Fear is Satan’s faith.

Fathering must begin on the inside of the father.

If you want to influence your children treat your mate with love and respect.

Sin is the ultimate inconvenient truth.

Monday, June 18, 2007

June 19,2007

Integrity is the fortress of truth.

Shared love protects both.

The most amazing things in life are so only because you have not considered them before.

Every breath is a miracle.

Only when Faith is a necessity is it Faith.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

June 18, 2007

Telling the truth in love is not as noble as living the truth in love.

Faced with reality, faith becomes more difficult and more necessary.

Face the truth and the lies will flee.

You are your greatest deceiver.

Your praise for others is one way of you seeing their value.


June 17, 2007

Many things are unforgettable but nothing is unforgivable.

Love is putting imagination into practice.

We can do more good than two “I"s.

Whatever we see going forward we tend to view through the past.

Practice cultivating the blessings of others.

Friday, June 15, 2007

June 16, 2007

March only to the drums of Eternity.


A piece of Peace is not Peace.

Heal your pain by reliving the suffering of another.

There is a huge difference between being rich and being redeemed.

Only the redeemed are truly rich.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

June 15, 2007

Make a peace with yesterday, and become a friend of today.

May the arrows of your enemies be dissolved by the love in your life.

Live so others know what you believe, never leave them guessing!

Become an enemy of lies and a friend of truth.

People are often deaf to your words while attentive to your life.

June 14, 2007

Too many people pray only when triggered by an alarm.

Any day without prayer, is not a good day.

It is not about the blessing; it is about the Blesser.

Prayer is a process whereby you find out what God wants for you, not what you want from Him.

You can not undo the past but you can do today right.

Be careful a Christian is liable to fall into a blessing at anytime!


Tuesday, June 12, 2007

June 13, 2007

Don’t blend the sacred and the secular but be so saturated with the sacred that it is your secular.

Live who you are but be sure who you are is worth living.

Cleansed on the inside means clean on the outside.

Love is the license of a Christian.

Keep a fair sized commentary in your life to burry your faults and the faults of others
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Monday, June 11, 2007

June 12, 2007

Always embrace the mood to be grateful.

Don’t just leave your mark on your day, but leave directions as well.

Forgiveness leaves your soul with a clean bill of health.

The magnitude of God’s forgiveness will amaze you when and if you get to Heaven.

Rush to judgment, as you would want others to rush to judge you.

June 11, 2007

Pray and think, then think and pray.

To be inspired, one must see better than he has done.

Doubt is a self-inflicted wound.

Cast Divine Love on the waters of your life today!

Imagine the surprise of some, to see you in Heaven.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

June 10, 2007

Make peace with you strength and war on your weaknesses.

Sin is not weakness, it is rebellion.

When asked to pass judgment, pass.

Forgive even when not asked.

Grab the first ray of sunshine to paint your day.

June 9, 2007

Keep your hands off, what you have given.

The Golden Rule is your Golden Obligation, and your Golden Privilege.

Refuse to be the author of your own troubles.

Do not just pursue good, but do good, while you pursue better.

Christians not only believe truth, but know truth.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

June 8, 2007

Dwell in thanksgiving and live in happiness.

Invest whatever goodness you receive in others.

Give thanks for the blessings of others.

You do not want what you are entitled to but seek the gifts of your

forgiveness.

Your neighbor is anyone in need.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

June 7, 2007


Everyday is more than you deserve.

A forgiven life becomes a blessed life. Seek it or give it.

Fewer are spoiled by love than by hate.

The more you value others the more valued you become.

Courage is managed fear.

June 6,2007


Today is reality, tomorrow is a possibility, and yesterday was a lesson.

Plan your life or someone else will.

Your fears are as ferocious as you allow them become.

Gentle is the truth saturated with love.

Pray forward, forgive backwards.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

June 5,2007

Do not miss the sunshine waiting for the rain.

An hour of worry equals a day lost.

The moment of forgiveness is the beginning of healing.

It is one thing to be wrong and another to do wrong.

How long is a stretch of your imagination?

Monday, June 04, 2007

June 4.2007

Be your best before you give your best.

Discouraged people, discourage people.

Mark your territory with love.

Think righteous and live victorious.

The gift of love cost both the giver and the receiver.