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.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

You are loved in spite of your weaknesses not because of your strengths.

Drugs mask the lesson.

Punishments carry their own rewards.

Hope is a decision of Faith.

Fit your imagination with vision.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Loneliness is the recognition that there really is a God.

Love is fenced in by faithfulness.

Prayer is the real information highway.

Learn to believe more that you can understand.

Where you choose to go is more important than where you have been.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Perseverance tends to make the unable, capable.

The pain of doing right is never as sever as the pain of doing wrong.

Expect that God will intervene in your behalf.

Learn to love those who deserve it the least.

You will not always comprehend the impact of your deeds, but try.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Debt is like, being on a breathing machine, during a blackout.

Debt is the master of freedom.

Debt never rest.

Debt is the cancer of progress.

The fruit of debt is hopelessness.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Good Friday is our Memorial Day.

Easter is our Fourth of July.

Easter is the cure for your turmoil of lonesomeness.

For the Christian, Friday was a tragedy, Saturdays was misery,
but Sunday was triumphant.


Easter , it is Sunday and I am Free!

Friday, March 21, 2008

Remember to forget what is best unremembered.

The peril of character is obligation.

Everyday, you make brush stroke on the canvas of life.

You can never be worthy of your value.

Never water the seed of hope with the waters of doubt.

Can you hear the sound of abundant rain while in the dessert of your lives?

Truth is your stronghold and Grace the way through.

Society is becoming more certain that they are uncertain.

Speak, kindness, it is a language that everyone understands.

Responsibility is a learned activity.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

The fear of a brave person is not contagious.

Nourish your Faith and your worries with wither up.

Never listen to the faithless for spiritual direction.

Heaven is not about majority rule.

Experience is what is left, when all else is gone.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Wisdom is not doing the same thing differently.

Blisters are better than words.

Advising forgiveness is easier that participating in it.

Corruption starts with temptation.

The boiling of a lobster begins in warm water.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Not trusting Him is not an option.

Laugh when you can and when you can’t find the company of those who can.

When faced with impossible start with the possible.

Trust politicians with your fingers crossed.

Not doing wrong is not the same as doing right.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Christians, you are here to change the world around you.

One does not negotiate with God but is obedient to Him.

It is not how much you have but how much have you given.

It is not what you can do but who you cannot do without.

Father, whatever you ask of me I will do today.

Your good deeds are a reflection of your character.

Humility absorbs pride but pride, resist humility.

Often God can only give you what you need through others.

Sanity is recognizing that you really do need God.

Insanity is the rejection of God.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Humility is recognizing that others have help you get where you are and achieved what you have.

Magic and miracles are not related to one another.

Miracles are for prophecy and for remembrance.

Humility is recognizing that God has worked through you.

It is not how small you are it is about how big God is.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Your faith can change the history of another.

Your Faith can change the blessings of others!

If I live, Jesus will be with me, if I die, I will be with Jesus.

Service is the persona of a believer.

If you know you are great, you aren’t.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

You can recapture any monies that are lost but you can never recapture and single moment of lost time.

Non-Christians are becoming more certain of their uncertainties.

Faith makes heroes out of the ordinary.

Are you a John the Baptist, an introducer of Jesus?

When you come home, come home, to love, to be loved, and be loveable.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The best days of your life are the ones that you invest not the ones you spend.

Their will be no taxes in Heaven.

Ah...The freshness of the air before a rain and peace of rising from prayer.

Fill your days with thankfulness, it is like filling your life with friends.

Only work can accomplish what imagination has dreamed.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Where are the accounts in your life you use to measure others?

They are the ones God will use to measure you!


Yeast, (corruption), cannot grow in salt; you are the salt of the earth.


Faith is most difficult, when life is most difficult.

Ignorance is not unbelief, but unbelief is ignorance.


Faithlessness is the key to loneliness.

Monday, March 10, 2008

May the people around your life be aware of the Redeemer within you!


Don’t be coerced by disillusion.


Your lack of service does mean that you are undone, but that you are unwilling.

If you exclude other Christians you endanger your testimony.

Doing the Will of God in your life is a marvelous privilege.

Sunday, March 09, 2008

The fruit of your influence is sweet solitude.

Worship is your personal thankfulness.

Are you a healer or a wounder?


The song says “I stand amazed in presence of God…” I think it should read “I am amazed to be standing in the presences of God.”


“Blessed are the peacemakers.” Be sure you do not miss this blessing.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

A selfish heart only feed the darkness of that heart.

Give a blank sheet of paper to your pastor and ask him how you might serve.

God is more than all powerful He is all loving.

You have not done my best when you do not do my best.

You cannot pause time you can only life time.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Your service is the window through which others see God.

Choose to be good even if you do not feel good.

Teaching is an obligation but service is a gift.

Light is the cure for the shadows in your life.

Our lives are covered with unrecognized blessings.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Wisdom explains difficulties.

No one can do their best all of the time.

One good turn can straighten you out.

Patience is the virtue with the hottest handle.

Only follow your good dreams.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

A smile is ointment for the soul.

You were designed to be different.

A friend feels your tragedy that no one else sees.

People are always imagining what it would be like instead of living it like it is.

Flattery is a gift from a selfish heart.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Finding the truth is less difficult than applying it.

Never die before your time.

Forgiveness is often as difficult to receive as it is to give.

Measure your success in the hearts of others.

Ethics are living truths.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Flattery happens when a person has nothing good to say about you.

Reform often means someone else is about to fail.

Too many Americans practice progressive monogamy. (One spouse at a time)

He had a heart of gold and a head of lead.

It is not often that time stands still so I wouldn’t count on it.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Do you ever have that gnawing thought that God might be right?

You can only get where you are going by starting where you are.

When it comes to my salvation I know nothing about speculation.

Give a smile catch a smile.

Nothing, only exists if there is something.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

You will always count more than you can measure.

Refining is making someone who is fine, better.

May the quill of an angel write your name in the Book of Life.

It is important to be remembered for who you were not, as well as who you were.

People think I am a tree hugger but I am really a cross hugger.