Make no memorials to your hurts.
Friends are a salve to you loneliness.
Size matters when it comes to measuring your generosity.
Homogenize your prejudice until you can tell no difference.
Every time you serve to get a blessing.
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
About Me
- Name: A Smoky Mountain Hi
- 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.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Forgiving is a huge step towards happiness.
Unforgiveness is the ultimate selfishness.
Hope is the soil of invention.
If you are unwilling to forgive you are lessening the value of salvation.
Almost is better than never trying.
Expect less of others and more of yourself.
Principles separate as well as unite.
There are no orphan believers.
Believers are a family regardless of tradition or language.
Being next is better than being ignored.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sincerity is not the measure, truth is.
Balance is often determined by where you started.
Truth must triumph over tradition if a choice becomes necessary.
Who is thoroughly different?
We tend to be a combination of tradition and expectations.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Ideas are the friend of progress.
Learning is the foundation of ideas.
If doing right hurts, pray for endurance.
Reduce your notions by your knowledge.
Think young but plan like you are ten years older.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
What a politician means by change is; change in your pocket and dollars in his.
The longer the campaign the less there is to vote for.
May the Lord of your day be the Knight of your night!
The more the politicians the less speak the less you understand.
Voting is the last freedom you should surrender.
Monday, September 22, 2008
More than a little is still a lot.
Hope is the factory of love.
A good plan is better than good experience.
Your love needs to be sufficient for those in your pasture.
Spread good memories on your the biscuits of your life.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Life without purpose is lifeless.
Measure you value by what flows through you not by what you keep.
Day is for work night is for rest, neglect neither.
Purpose is how you define your love.
A father in the end does what is right for his family.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Value people more than money, and use your money not your people.
It is not what you are worth but what you value that defines you.
The more you enrich the lives around you the more valuable you become.
May your generosity exceed your money!
When you friend is in pain your tears are worth more than your dollars.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Love confuses logic.
One works harder for love than for money.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his own family?
Understanding is the compassion of love.
Never love less what you should love more.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Success is more about doing right than making money.
Opportunity seeks out the successful.
Hard work leads to opportunity.
Even if no one recognizes your efforts you will.
Truly successful people pass it on.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
More folks fear impending doom more than actual doom.
Fear not the losses, but celebrate your gains.
The ashes of your failures are the fertilizer for your future.
Failure is lonelier than success.
Sometimes you must cut your loses to save your bacon.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Never neglect who you are while on your journey to become who you want to be.
Jesus came to the regular folks as well.
To be able to laugh at yourself brings comfort to those who journey with you.
Everyone is thankful but fewer know Who to thank.
The blessing of a happy man never cease.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Expensive means you would be paying more than you should for it.
Wealth tends to limit your friends.
Only the wealthy one can bridge the divide to create friendships.
Abundance is a responsibility as well as a blessing.
Poverty creates strange loyalties.
A man without a friend understands loneliness.
Forgive your friend and gain a true friend.
The friend north of your heart is the one with whom you must make peace.
Do not be so focused that you loose those who surround you.
To be truly in charge you must allow other to do their best.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Children are a reward that you never quite understand until you have grandchildren.
Children quickly absorb the strengths and weakness of their parents.
Family is your first and last considerations.
Children are burdened or blessed of your decisions.
Friends are an anchor in the storms of life.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Never or always is only for someone who has the power to enforce it.
Marriage is a process of osmosis for both involved.
Ultimately, respect and admiration must be given rather just earned.
Honesty is a terrible burden to the honest.
Honesty is a must not a possibility.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
If you would make a mark on this world, let it be the smile of a child.
Hope comes from the knowledge of what you believe.
Morning is the first blessing of the day.
Everyone is someone to someone.
God is the someone, for those who lack a someone.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Feelings are unreliable but truth is where you can always build a foundation.
Make your plans and ask God if they are right for you.
Plan your organization and organize your plans.
Compassion is less about feeling and more about doing.
If you must you can and if you can you must.
9-11 brought out the best in us and the worst in them.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Love is the beginning of anything that is worthwhile.
The best accomplishments in your life are based on love.
To be sincere one must feel as well as see.
Overconfidence is for those who misunderstood truth.
Learn from your failures or you will be seeing them again.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
You decide if you want to be happy but others contribute to that decision.
You will find wisdom when you chose to do right.
Marriage can either be harmony or discord and most of that depends on you.
Becoming a life partner requires patience, understanding, forgiveness and determination.
The rewards of a good marriage are immeasurable.
Confusion is usually about purpose rather than deeds.
Music is a spiritual antacid.
Forever provides little time to forget the misery you have caused.
Forever must be saturated with the memories of forgiveness.
Measure your success by the successes you have fostered in others.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
The struggles of life are mostly of our own making.
Show pride in another before criticism.
The reason for inappropriate behavior is more important that the behavior.
Lonely? Take two good memories and a nap and you will be fine.
Truth is not in high demand but is in great need.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Endurance is perseverance in work cloths.
The time for smiles is upon you.
Sell only the best to those who need it the most for a price they can afford.
Better to be disappointed because you set your goal to high that to succeed where is unnecessary.
Sprint into life, inch into death.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Failing is an option but quitting is not.
Cluster you principles around your heart.
Fear those who paralyze your faith.
Expect the best, prepare for worse, and surround the difference with your hopes and prayers.
Your life should explain your principles.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Praise the gifts of others.
You do not have to better than others to be better than you were.
It is voting that counts, that is the difference between democracy and dictatorship.
Political speeches are like the morning clouds pretty and soon forgotten.
The difference between a forecaster and a prophet is the punishment for failure.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
If you cannot get out of the rain, ignore it and do what needs to be done.
Your imperatives are dictated by your priorities.
It is easier to love someone than to allow someone to love you.
Knowledge must be applied to create wisdom.
In business, a golden parachute only applies to those making the rules.