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, September 30, 2009

The only thing that could be wrong about Jesus dying on the cross is for you not to accept it.

Hope often comes in the expression of a prayer.

An executive decision requires someone to accept responsibility.

It is not you sin that will keep you out of Heaven but your lack of repentance or forgiveness of others.

Sin is a virus of suppression
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Learn to live in harmony with your expectations.

The more you enjoy your spirituality the more you enjoy your fellowship.

Being a neighbor and being neighborly are completely different issues.

Never settle for what you were, always strive for what you can be!

Life is far less important than living.

Monday, September 28, 2009

A smile is a preview of acceptance.

Diligence multiples intelligence!

Compassion is developed by an awareness of your own shortcomings.

Persistence to the right, diligence to the left, and determination front and center!

It is not hard to make a choice until you have to make a decision.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Without love nothing you do can please God.

You are part of a Divine plan to defeat evil.

Your life will be no shorter that it will be, but your future could be.

You must be rescued from darkness, there is no other way!

Which took more Grace for Jesus, to lay down His life, or to pick it up again?

Saturday, September 26, 2009

One wife said "The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but there seems to be no way to get to his brain!"

Jesus is the light on the other side of darkness.

Only a thankful mind can find wisdom.

Forgiveness flavors ever aspect of our life as will the lack of forgiveness.

Pride must always be replaced with thankfulness.

Friday, September 25, 2009

If you lived for the next world, this world would take notice.

Want to be more that you are?... Think God!

Allow no hunger for Heaven that exceeds your hunger for God!

Often, God’s help in your weakness turn people towards God more than your strengths.

Returning what you have found that someone else has lost is not an obligation but a privilege.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Capturing life in words is like trying to capture a sunset in a picture.

Destiny is purpose accomplished.

The reason you were created was fellowship with God; anything less leaves you lonely.

You were designed to share eternity with God.

Being moral is a byproduct of being good.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The gospel is an invested in the lives of the unworthy.

You can be moral without being redeemed but you cannot be redeemed with out being moral!

Truth trumps beliefs.

Hope endures all hardships.

The purpose of this life is to prepare yourself and others f0r the next one.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Savor the moments that God has loved you more than you deserve.

Love complicates you life in a wonderful way.

Your true personality is God’s way of declaring your individuality.

Thankfulness is a result of a small realization of personal miracles.

“Why am I here?” is a much smaller question that; “What and I doing?”

Monday, September 21, 2009

Prayers is not always the way forward sometimes it call us back to correct an error before moving on.

Scientists only learn what God allows them to learn.

Your purpose in life is to discover God.

Your meaning in life is to share what you have discovered.

Our task in life is to lighten someone else’s burden.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

What have you learned from what you did not learn?

When you become a dependent of the government you become their slave.

History teaches us that we are not teachable.

“Good men have died shouted.” Satan, “Yes but one has risen!” answered Jesus.

You exist because God intended for you to be living.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

For a Christian, pride is really thankfulness.

Concern, keeps you one your toes, but worry will knock you off your feet.



Each marriage creates it own unique form of love.

Your experience in life is your life.

Your judgments should only prove God is right.

Friday, September 18, 2009

You leave apart of what you believe in every life you touch.

Your happiness lessens whatever misery surrounds you.

Do your best and whatever happens, happens.

Fate never trumps Faith.

You are making your nostalgia now.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Change your mind and you will change your world.

Fall colors in the mountains bring solitude and serenity in the same moment.

Fall is like Heaven as spring is like a new birth.

Listening to the cacophony of a brook singing it’s way along is an unimaginable luxury.

The crunch of fall leaves is the melody of autumn.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Make the effort to contact the one no one else will.

Comfort is often most recognized when delivered in a good deed.

Good memories are easily preserved bad memories spoil the present.

Often a hard choice is between what is personal and what is selfish.

A good long walk in the woods is worth many Prozac.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A pleasant person is a jewel to discover.

A satisfied soul has an aura of friendliness.

May your peace be greater than your troubles!

The beams of a smile travel far in a tired world.

One never knows who might warm themselves around the glow of a good deed.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Effective love heals.

Healing brings hope.

Hope brings possibilities

Possibilities bring effort.

Effort brings satisfaction.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Never doubt what has been promised you.

Doubt takes the joy out of receiving.

A believer always has enough light to get out of darkness.

Chose to do what you believe.

God delights to hear your prayers at you weakest moments.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Happiness is a choice! Not always an easy choice but one that Christians have the privilege of embracing. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”. The New Testament we are reminded to “think on this things” whatsoever things that are good, whatsoever things lovely , and whatsoever things are of good report …Think on these!

If we are doing this type of thinking on some kind of a regular basis we have to have happiness. Happiness is the fruit of joy. We as Christians are hardwired into the only source of true joy in the universe! Happiness will overtake the faithful, so if you are faithful you will be overtaken by happiness! So be prepared!

Feelings are the most fickle part of our psyche. We may feel sad because of some circumstances in our lives but as those circumstances pass or take a proper place the greater scheme of our lives joy is still there. Joy is the energy of the shine in the Light set upon a hilltop that you are to represent.

Sadness is the feeling of sorrow while happiness is the feeling of joy.

Believers hear but disciples do: which are you?

Give thanks in all your circumstances. not for your circumstances.

If you have no troubles you need no faith.

You have safety in your troubles by your faith.

It is not about the lies you have been told, but the truth you know that counts.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Authority can be earned but respect must be given.

Christians have terminal faith.

Only the blind are faultless.

Disobedience is the first shade of darkness.

Wealth is another shade against the light.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Despair is natural faith is not.

Be concerned for what is necessary but worry for nothing.

True love needs no seduction.

Tolerate no weak inks in the choice to love.

Arrogance is the perfume of ignorance.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

You are controlled by what consumes your life.

Atheism is part fear and part self-delusion.

A peaceful soul prospers in any environment.

It is better to be correct than cleaver.

Why I was born is less important than what I do with my life.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The difference between potential and possibility is opportunity.

People in darkness make more noise than the people in light.

Love makes the truth more palatable.

You can never prosper at the expense of another.

The purpose of a purpose is to have a purpose.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Luck sweats too little to have value.

The best proof of a truth is living it.

Freedom is only for those that are willing to police themselves.

If a government must tell you that you are free you know that you are not.

If you cannot stand the heat stay out of Hell!

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Never underrate the possibility of a possibility.

Determination fuels perseverance.

Often fear is more fearful that it’s cause.

If nothing can separate me from the Love of God then I have nothing to fear.

He is the kind of person who knows every but understand nothing.

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Is variety the spice of life or is spice the variety of life?

Say yes as often as you can so when you say no it means something.

Coddle hope until it you see the roots of possibility; then plant it in the soil of hard work.

Few things just happen that are worth happening.

Cruelty is a choice whether in word or deed.

Friday, September 04, 2009

Fear fills the hopeless and hope fills the fearless.

There are no erasers on the pens of truth.

Be prepared pray first!

If you are casting the first stone sometimes you are inaccurate, but hurtful words rarely miss.

Some folks need their batteries recharged some folks never got their batteries.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Wisdom has no room for fear!

Wisdom is not limited by faith but can be deflected by fear.

Believe further than you expect.

For a Christian faith is not an option but fear is.

Our fears about ourselves reflect our fear about God.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Truth is from God and lies are from Satan,

In a life where all things are possible fear is unnecessary.

Imagination can lift you up or crush you.

Truth abolishes fear while fear seeks to weaken truth.

Truth attracts heroes and fear attracts cowardice.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Everyone will be an immigrant in Heaven.

Faith destroys fear and fear destroys faith.

You purchase friendship with an investment of love and time.

Forever seem a little short to experience true love.

Fear is from Satan and faith is from God.