Too many folks are content to live with drips of Grace when there are showers of blessing available.
Your thankfulness should not be limited to what you know!
Change is perpetual but unfortunately our acceptance is limited.
Thinking you are right does not make it so.
It is hard to be successfully humble.
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.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Avoid the pains brought by self-piety, self-pity, and selfishness.
Gambling is an expensive way to give up your freedom.
Respect is yours to gain or loose.
Offer to God and give to man.
Everyday is another opportunity to do right.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Doing right is does not always happen in a straight line.
The doors of opportunity and temptation often look alike.
As a Christian, what is different about your life that would cause someone to notice?
Adjust but never compromise.
You can never add to your life by taking away from another life.
The hope of tomorrow is often bound by the frustrations of the today.
To find loneliness you must leave happiness.
To be missed is to be important.
Savoring a blessing is a blessing.
I told my wife, “In my mind you are wonderful but in my heart you are so very much more.”
Friday, November 21, 2008
God is better at forgiving than you are at sinning.
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to live with the consequences of not asking.
May your heart burst from joy given you by those you love!
I find that doing better is not always easy.
Don’t get so busy counting your blessing that you neglect to enjoy the one you have now.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The pain of failure weighs heaver than the joy of success.
Forgiveness is not based on understanding.
How difficult it must be to know you could have and should have done better.
There is nothing like a personal miracle.
Every answer to prayer is a personal miracle.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
If you make the best of a bad situation you have done well.
Creativity is what someone does with rough ideas.
Our notions are less important than our ideas.
Fear is the acid indigestion of peace.
Never miss a blessing by waiting for the next one.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Knowledge can be taught but perseverance is the teacher.
Effort is the beginning, diligence is the finish.
Teach by example and judge by accomplishment.
Leaders extend their reach to the grasp of others.
To inspire others, you must first listen
Monday, November 17, 2008
Imagination is a collection of ideas that could be.
Cleaver ideas don’t always come from cleaver people.
Admire the discipline of others while working on your own.
Understanding an idea is the door of opportunity.
Value commitment more than understanding.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Thanksgiving gives you a legitimate opportunity to be thankful.
For Thanksgiving to be real, it must be a culmination of 364 other days of thanksgiving.
Don’t be thankful you are not like others, but be thankful you are not like you were.
Forgiveness is a great way to create thankfulness in others.
May people be more thankful to see you come than go!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
If you disagree with someone, it is harder to support them when they are right.
It is easier to expect more of others than of yourself.
You have to remember that the employees don’t own the company.
The more the employees needs are met the more of the company needs are met.
Your company is a result of your employees judgment of your example.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Happiness is based on God’s promises not on what happens.
The happier you are the happier are the people around you.
The extra mile is always the hardest.
If you have people working for you, you bear the greater responsibility.
If you expect some to love you, you have to love first.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
We tent do get in to trouble because we act on what we think God wants instead of asking Him.
Avoid the temptation to walk in the light of your own ignorance.
The just shall live by faith, they cannot see it but can believe it.
Sometimes God turns out the lights to teach you to live by faith.
We must put ourselves where God can bless us and our family.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
We tend to run from our ideas about God rather than from God, Himself.
Around God’s campfire we can choose the music but He chooses the blessing.
Wisdom is seeing things from God’s perspective.
The reverence of God is the beginning of wisdom.
If there were no troubles in a Christian’s life, the New Testament would not have been written by jailbirds.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
HAPPINESS KEEPS YOU SWEET
TRIALS KEEP YOU STRONG
AND SORROWS KEEP YOU HUMAN
FAILURES KEEP YOU HUMBLE
SUCCESS KEEPS YOU GLOWING
BUT ONLY GOD KEEPS YOU GOING!
Larry Fireoved
Monday, November 10, 2008
The test of strength that most people fail is perseverance.
The strength to make this right is better than the strength to make things happen.
From the front porch of your lives consider what you have caused.
It is best not to remember how good you have been but how right you were.
Loneliness is not about how many people that are around you, but the lack of peace within you.
Carol has knee surgery today at 11am remember her and her recovery as you are able.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Be suspect of those who criticize the most.
Learn to find the wisdom of the ideas of others.
Ideas do not have to be original to be good.
Mold yourself into the one you love.
Be malleable but knowledgeable.
There are no moral shortcuts.
Your service should always be better than your product.
You further your success by lessening your failures.
Victory should be less about winning and more about changing.
Knowing right without doing right is moral failure.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Doing and being different is only important if you are doing right.
Respect is something you partially earn but giving it.
It is open season on hope.
Exercise patience before you need it.
The truth is the best way to further your cause.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
If love does not interfere with your life you are not in love.
Too Many marriages are fuelled more by demands than by understanding.
Diligence is the sweat of purpose.
Never allow your Hope to become disorientated.
Next to the last means you are still ahead.
Today is my wonderful son's birthday and Mark Capps as well.
What bleesings they are to us.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Often the toil is the greater burden of a trial.
Most marriages end over selfishness than anything else.
We are becoming more connected and less friendly.
Most religions are designed around you earning your salvation Christianity is the only religion that gives salvation free.
There is nothing so dreadful as ignorance in action.” Robert Mitchell
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
No Matter Who Wins the Election
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still work.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost when they come to Him
God approves this message!
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CHARGE?
Jim Jacaruso
Monday, November 03, 2008
All political loyalty cost someone something.
Victory does not bring cooperation but compassion will.
Life is long enough for you to correct most of your errors but few of others.
Pondering a problem by itself, changes nothing about it!
Today, we will have a new president but Jesus will still be our King.
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Loosing an election is bad, loosing our unity is worse.
Neither candidate is all right or all wrong.
The United States is our country, a united people is our strength.
Truth is not up for reelection.
After an election your responsibility to be responsible!