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.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Your life will be a good as your Faith.

To gain your self-worth from your work is unprofitable.

Being overworked is a choice not an obligation.

The condition of your children and family is more important than the condition of your bank account.

Divorce hails Satan’s power.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Faith speaks to your heart in the night.

Temptation reveals your character flaws.

The longer I wrestle with temptation the less successful I become.

It is best to slay temptation at first glance.

Bad experience is no excuse for bad decisions

Friday, February 26, 2010

You must believe if you want to know what you have received.

If you think you comprehend Grace you must certainly misunderstand it.

Today step into the pool of Grace filled with the tears of your Savior!

Forgiving someone lifts an immeasurable weight off your life.

Love melts hatred.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Ideas are graduating thoughts.

Improvement is where history meets the present with understanding.

Popularity is a masked normality.

Live in the direction you want others to follow.

Improvised living promotes learning.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

We excuse what we are unwilling to control.

The farther you are from the truth the more insecure you become.

Love is sharing another's journey into happiness.

Risk is one road to success.

Living requires controlling risk but should not eliminate it.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Visionaries are folks that can look at troubles and see possibilities.

Turning possibilities into reality takes perspiration.

Take no lessons in the counterfeit learn from the genuine.

It is easier to misunderstand success than it is failure.

Priorities tend to be driven harder by wants than by needs.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Love forgives what it cannot forget.

Few get exhausted from good deeds.

Precious memories soothe present turmoils!

It is easier to live with forgiving than hatred.

Love saturates a life like little else.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Character flaws spoil you vision.

Easier to say I love you than to live I love you!

Be fair to the facts and they will be true to you.

Time mismanagement is epidemic.

Compassion is active love.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Court friendship with an open heart!

Live like you hope your children will.

Pouting proceeds doubting!

Fortitude embraces possibilities.

Neglect temptations embrace expectations.

Friday, February 19, 2010

In order to do your best something in your life ends up with the worst.

Balance is the only measurement of a life.

Effort is a measurement of determination.

Whatever stops you controls you.

Giving flavors living!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

You are only entitled to be right if you are.

You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own truth.

You are not entitled to change the facts to suit your ideas.

Less than right is wrong!

Demand only what you are willing to give.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Marriage is a committed commitment.

Satan will always be attacking your life but he never has to succeed.

The failure of another is no excuse for your lack of success.

Fun is inspirational happiness.

Love cannot succeed without forgiveness.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

In marriage you have to say no to some things in order to say yes to better things.

Only those who believe in miracles can truly appreciate them.

Not doing wrong is never enough.

To perish or not to perish is a choice.

Never allow the failure of another to contribute to your failure.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Your life is designed to reveal God.

Temptation always comes with choices.

Faith is invisible while a deed can be seen.

Less said more lived.

Temptation is usually a lie about the truth.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Discipleship requires determination.

Gratitude creates its own its own attitude.

Our feelings are altered by what we do.

You cannot bring God, God brings you.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Grace brings joy to discipleship.

You lead the willing and drive the unwilling.

Obedience is the mortar of faith.

The essence of marriage is belonging.

Christianity is not an “I’ll get back to you on that “relationship.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Mercy is one of the foundations of happiness.

Marriage requires sacrificing for the good of the other.

It is out of a happy, committed, marriage that children prosper.

Marriage is a form of mutual discipleship.

Understanding is applying the truth you have learned.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Prejudice is willing ignorance.

Loving your enemy is no easy task.

You need to prepare to be prepared.

Is Jesus your GPS?

Selfishness + Marriage= Divorce

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The biggest loser is the keeper.

Never fear the lose of what you must leave behind.

Discontent is the bait of temptation.

Self-control is one buffer protecting marriage.

Whatever you allow. soon demands its’ rights.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Marriage is about blending, binding, and believing.

In marriage as in life, if both of you agree on everything, one of you is unnecessary.

It is difficult to have a perfect marriage with two imperfect people.

The less God shares your marriage the more difficult it becomes.

Marriage is seeing a shared goal from different perspectives.

Monday, February 08, 2010

It is not keeping the rules but the relation with God, that gives us salvation.

Truth trumps hardships.

The people around Christians are either sad or glad.

Always praise God and you will always be right.

God is always right so if you want to be right just agree with Him.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

The price of loyalty is beyond your means.

The extent of mercy cannot be measured.

Walking in darkness creates loneliness.

I will never understand the cost of my sins, to Jesus!

Whether an earthquake or a heart attack death is incomprehensible!

Saturday, February 06, 2010

When pride is replaced with thankfulness then true service begins.

Pride limits your spiritual gifts.

Praise is always the right attitude!

Giving is living.

Death may separate our bodies but not our hearts.

Friday, February 05, 2010

At least in the country, you are busy doing something worthwhile.

If you agree with me we can still both be wrong.

A college degree is valuable but imagination is priceless.

Forgiveness is the best stress reliever.

Pain is easier to manage in others than in yourself
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Drive as if your life depends on it.

A bad attitude is the worst disability.

Are your fork and your waist at war?

A mind set is a mind lost.

To be lost you need to have a destination.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Plant the good and compost the bad.

Are you a winner or a whiner?

Dial prayer for hope.

Marriage is heart business .

Greed honors no friendship.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Is your life an encouragement or a warning?

Balance is not being caught with your bad side up.

Love can endure solitude but not loneliness.

Never over estimate your influence.

Never undervalue your impact.

Monday, February 01, 2010

The less we depend on our abilities the more productive we become.

Complexity is only entwined simplicity.

Being nice sweetens every life.

To purge your mind fill it with joy.

Sadness flees happiness.