It is extremely difficult to be perfect once let alone on a regular basis but His perfect love can be applied to your failures at any moment it is needed.
Forgiveness is the framework, compassion is the padding.
Celebrate the success of others.
You cannot change yesterday or tomorrow but you can change the present.
Being dependable is doing what you should without being asked.
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.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Too many Teflon preachers are preaching to Teflon congregations.
Anyone who loves someone is always valuable.
Lies torque a life like little else.
Truth is a shelter no one can penetrate.
The pool of ignorance is deepest where truth is ignored.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Everyone sees their own reflection with a prejudice mind.
Doing your best must be reserved for Deity.
If measured by time, your life is less than a blink of an eye.
If your life is measured by your love, eternity may never have time to tell it all.
Success is being better than you were.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Never measure with a short ruler.
Most of the time, the spark of confidence comes after hard work.
Anything you have is more than you deserve.
Those who covet are destine to be friendless.
When a boss calls for teamwork it usually means he wants it done his way.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Stress multiplies misunderstandings.
Value what is eternal not what is temporal.
Walk straight to prove your point.
To steal one must only do less that what is expected of him.
Which is greatest; the price of success or the cost to those you left behind?
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time measures the breath of life, compassion the depth.
Stand in the pool of righteousness where ever you are.
Boasting is a lottery of words with the expectation of someone believing them.
To be correct it must be done in love.
Behavior is a reflection of the heart.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Jesus spent more of His time with his family of disciples than He did preaching to the lost; I wonder why?
Are you on the welcoming committee for the Second Coming?
Learn to blame the guy in the mirror.
Praise the wounded Christian and help lift him out of his failure.
Take either the long view or the short view, your character should be in control.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
There is no door to yesterday only a glimpse of tomorrow so live now.
Paul did not die daily for the fun of it.
You can continue expect the world to misunderstand.
The urgent brings out the worst in us or our best.
My selfishness hurts the ones I love the most.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Be baptized on the outside with water and on the inside with the Spirit.
Every once in a while I bump into the old slain pagan side of my life.
I never cease to rejoice that I turned away from those pagans in my past.
Take time to slay and baby pagans trying to take root in your life.
Find as many ways to celebrate joy as you possibly can.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Christ never had to hope He could be better.
I am blemish ridden, Jesus is blemish free.
God took the deal, Him for me.
I am blessed by the light I have and troubled by how my faith struggles to embrace it.
The sooner my faith accepts Him, the less I have to regret.
Monday, April 20, 2009
To be honest, sometimes, I detest my example.
It is much easier to know what I believe than it is to act like it.
If it were not for repentance I would be hopeless.
Faith brings into focus what I need to be and can be.
Christ's sacrifice permanently paved the way to heaven.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Hope anchors the shifting in your life.
To always have plenty, enjoy what you have.
Perpetual hope is a Christian’s heritage.
You must be wise enough to change and strong enough to stand.
Multiply your blessings by counting the blessings of others.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Learn to teach what people need to know in a way the want to learn.
Christians should be prophets of hope.
If you tell the truth often enough someone will believe you.
It is always wrong to agree with wrong.
Every life without God teaches a lie.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Try to be more transparent than perfect.
It is easier for a transparent person to recognize when they are wrong.
By underestimating your influences on your family, you excuses your carelessness.
The more you experience the genuine the more sensitive you are to the false.
You must be willing to measure up.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Commitment is something I do without fully understanding.
Morality is taught in our schools one way or another.
Neutral education will only produce an abundance of ignorance.
Neutral education is anything but neutral.
Hearing is only a fraction of understanding.
Too often our inconsistencies are constant.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Today will likely be a taxing day!
You were born with an antagonism towards authority.
Therefore, if you are in authority you have natural resistance.
Without commitment love cannot survive.
If jealously is a problem then envy is the result.
Morality is not a myth; it just seems that way.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
True education is learning the truth.
May the passion I have for success be most evident in my family.
You have been chosen that is why you are here.
Leaders must know when to believe.
An impression is a continuing activity
Monday, April 13, 2009
Psychology has become an escape for the unbelievers.
The heart of the Good Sheppard is sufficient of your pain.
If argue with Satan, you cannot win but you can aggravate him.
For those you would pastor you must first be a sheppard.
If you admit when you are wrong people will tend to believe you when you are right.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
The more you trust, the less you fuss.
Humility is understanding that God thinks you are necessary.
Trials come to every life, hope only to a few.
Remember, if you are in a very dark place you need to open your eyes of faith.
Charity may begin at home but it dare not stay there.
Friday, April 03, 2009
There will be an “Awards Chapel” for the faithful.
Busybodies will suffer from loneliness sooner or later.
It is the battered saints more than the super saints that prosper in the hereafter.
If you have no one to turn to, you are turning in the wrong direction.
For a Christian there is no last hope
Hospitality is allowing your day to be interrupted.
If you are doing something for God you don’t care who gets the credit.
Find someone you can serve in some way.
Problems are an opportunity to depend on God.
Reshape your thinking about giving you time.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Jesus came to dispel fear, so why are you hanging on to it?
Even a grown man wears diapers in some part of his life.
Spending time with your family is never wasted ministry.
Hatred criticizes but love cleanses.
One another is what the Christian walk is all about.