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.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

The best things in life aren’t!,,, Wait until you see Heaven!

A wise man listens; a fool only waits for his turn to talk.

Never make a best friend of a selfish man.

Your last chance is when you refuse to take another!

Never let ignorance retool your life.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Knowledge talks and wisdom filters.

To not change is to not have learned.

Never allow your success go to your head or your failures go to your heart.

Yes, truth is a mind altering drug.

If a picture is worth a thousands words then a good deed is worth a million.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Life has bound you with possibilities but you are free to unravel them.

Freedom is not represented by what you accomplish but who you are.

Some blessings bring fatigue as well as celebration.

Freedom is two fold, freedom to do what you want and freedom to do what you ought!

Corruption is the rope that binds freedom.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A friend stays with you even when he has other things to do.

Make friends with an enemy and he will cease to be one.

When a friend needs help don’t ask, do something!

Friends are like snowflakes no two the same.

Dull is the life unshared.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The hardest thing to understand in life is your true motive.

Lawyer, being elected politicians. have made it impossible to live without lawyers.


Between salvation and deliverance resides a lifetime.

Value is more important than success.

Hope is a durable good, mined in the hearts of the faithful.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Too many people decide what to think before they consider thinking what to decide.

You cannot change what has happened; but you can change what is happening.

A wise man puts off until tomorrow what should not be done until tomorrow.

You do not need someone else to be happy, but you might contribute to someone else’s.

Replacing one worry with another is not progress.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Patience is always hardest to find when you need it the most.

Diamonds are caused by pressure, so are failure and success.

A beggar is an aggravation to the rich and a blessing to the giver.

Dreams have the ending you work for.

Failing to love causes your greatest loss.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

The best is still on its way into your life.

Useful or useless, the choice is yours.

Trouble reveals more character than it builds.

There is no money left in the coffin.

Regrets prolong misery.

Friday, October 23, 2009

A Christian prays for direction, but a fool would not take it anyway.

The bigger the committee is the smaller the blame.

You are living a victorious life when you do not have to think about it.

Wisdom begins and ends with God!

Wisdom is an illusive quest, as it constantly builds upon itself.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Heaven will not be a democracy.

When is the last time you held a workshop on Faith?

Gossip spoils memories.

Prayer is for you to understand what God already does.

There will be no 401ks in Heaven.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The majority of hope comes from a minority of people.

More folks reopen doubt before the preserver in hope.

When you remodel your life don’t forget to throw the trash out.

Excitement attracts depression repels.

May the chill in the air be the weather not your prejudices.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pursuing grace searches for the possibility of the impossible.

Grace refreshes, fulfills, cleanses, enables and encourages.

Grace teaches, directs, enlightens, provides and overcomes.

Grace gives understanding, purpose, and meaning to life.

Grace causes you to give what you would not give, to those whom you would not have given.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Sin is always competing with what God has provided.

Grace is more than redemption it is a present from God.

Understanding Grace helps you conceive of God.

Doubt ultimately is about the reliability of God.

Grace is divided into at least two concepts “saving Grace” and "empowering Grace” both are gifts.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

A speech is better short and sweet than long and sour.

Don’t confuse words with content.

Dreams require plans.

Enthusiasm wakes the learner.

Often expectations are a form of prejudice.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

A tender heart is a valuable commodity.

Often, experience is healed failure.

Pray for a stranger today and in Heaven he may not be one.

A code of silence is most often a code of cowardice.

It is harder to live a truth than to tell a lie.

Friday, October 16, 2009

True wealth can weigh in around 6 or 8 pounds kicking and screaming.

Misery is quicksand that will likely swallow your friends.

Happiness leaves a sweet flavor in the mouths near you.

Bitterness always affects your vision.

Pride is the plight of selfishness.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Faith is the cornerstone of hope.

The obligation of a responsibility is a privilege.

Ignorance is not bliss when pain is on its way.

Interrogate you motives by your behavior.

Measure your success by the results in the lives of those you touch.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

We live in the midst of miracles but we tend to look for the supernatural ones and miss the obvious miracles that surround our daily lives.

A tree that gives multitudes of fruit from; yet is grown from a single seed Miracles like the rains and waters that allow our foods to grow, also there are the stars we see each night and the vastness of the universe before our eyes!


Then there is the child that is given from your love. A crawling, walking, talking, little miracle.

These things that happen are miracles of exasperating complexity yet, we see these each and every day. Are these blessings or miracles..or perhaps both?

It is better to live in the blessings of God than to live for miracles.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Where you came from is far less important than where you are going!

Some lives are yours to touch don’t miss the chance!

Valor is most often controlled fear.

Cause no regrets for others.

Hope is the elixir of happiness.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Overwhelming hope surrounds the faithful.

Being faithful is often hard work

Happiness will overcome the faithful.

Faithfulness is the container of joy.

When you are not faithful you are not happy.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

What is common today was unimaginable twenty years ago.

Anytime you bring out the best in others you have had a good day.

Leadership is knowledge plus enthusiasm.

Intentions are valiant, character is victory.

Humility is a clear understanding of God.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Wise men learn from perils; fools cause them.

Inspiration must come before boredom or it will not come at all.

Help before you are asked, pray before you need help.

Plan for the future and learn to live in the present.

Never overestimate your worth or underestimate your value
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Friday, October 09, 2009

The less you charge for kindness the more you receive.

It wonderful to win but it is much better to have played fair.

Credit has become the drug of the middle class.

Better your house be foreclosed on than your home.

Remain innocent while you protect the innocent

Thursday, October 08, 2009

History tells us that we are ignorant of history.

What is your action plan for Eternity?

Eating from your own garden is gourmet bliss.

Cancer has little mercy and no economical limitations.

The more welcome you feel at home the faster you try to get there
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The most amazing thing about life, is life itself!

Everyday is all you have, no repeats.

Never pray to a suspicious god.

Miracles are when God answers your prayers your way.

Notice the hands of kindness around you.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

You cannot not afford to forget what you ought to remember!

A sentence is more than words and punctuation, it is an idea.

Lessons are more difficult to learn the second time around.

Often more pain is caused than endured.

Pick up the pieces some might need them.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Spectators never win!

Remember your place, you are or can be the child of the King.

A helping hand is rarely wounded.

Comfort finds many resting places.

Be thankful for what can do.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Never under estimate the influence of a lie!

There should be no difference between the character I know and the one I show.

Duty is what others expect of me; character is what I expect from myself.

The sacrifices of love bring little remorse.

After all is said and done you must still live with yourself.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

The universe is too organized to be random.

People have a choice whether to do good; Christians do not!

A self made man is the purest form of self-deception.

Hell is the absence of all fellowship.

May your biggest fault be that you love too much!

Friday, October 02, 2009

The price of love is pitifully small, enormously difficult, and brings a reward like nothing else.

No one ever wore a cross until they crucified Jesus.

Think the thoughts that refine your goals.

To overcome one must possess the Overcomer!

Shame can either be your conscious at work or deception at work.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

One of the fruits of love is protection.

If you are not family you are the enemy of God.

The influence of your life will be sown in the lives about you.

Does your life rescue hope or preserve despair.

Power should be a humbling blessing.