The strength of Grace is immeasurable.
Grace comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Grace is the love of God in action.
Grace sees beyond your failures.
Grace entwines the lives of the believers.
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.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Use the rocks that have been thrown at you to build a solid foundation for your success.
Repeat only want you know, carefully and what you have heard, not at all.
Rumors are sins of intent.
A star is someone who lives up to his/her potential whether noticed or not.
Grace only redeems the willing.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Love is comfort food for the soul.
Parenting makes you realize how difficult raising you might have been.
Raising an adolescent is like the terrible twos with an I-phone.
Being respectful breeds respect.
God is not interested in a consensus.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Escaping temptation is not enough, one must embrace truth.
Relabeled sin is still sin.
Misunderstood truth becomes a stumbling block.
Chocolate and an apology usually smooth the way.
Oh, the shortness of life and the length of eternity!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Insanity is an unwillingness to accept truth!
Understanding is one of the fruits of truth.
Stretching for truth is one of the best exercises.
Divided loyalties find no truth.
Faith is a collection of truths tested by living.
Friday, March 26, 2010
The slight deviation from truth harvests temptation.
Not all truth is comfortable.
The underlying force behind any truth is God!
Experienced truth is the most difficult truth to rebel against.
Kindness warms the coldest heart
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Insanity is an unwillingness to accept truth!
Understanding is one of the fruits of truth.
Stretching for truth is one of the best exercises.
Divided loyalties find no truth.
Faith is a collection of truths tested by living.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Truth puts meaning into your purpose.
Truth is not nearly as allusive as temptation.
Your hunger for truth is evidence enough that truth does exist.
It is my experience that truth is searching for you more than you are for truth.
Truth forms reality rather than reality forming truth.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Truth limits ignorance.
Truths are the headlights of hope.
Failure, often unveils truth.
Your friends are part of the contentment of your heart.
Truth is a journey to alleviate uncertainty.
Monday, March 22, 2010
There is more possible than impossible.
Faith is the bridge between hope and reality.
Grace powers a successful marriage.
Truth frees faith!
Truth increases your knowledge or stiffens your neck.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The prosperous person had to learn to give first.
The deeper you love the more likely you are to conclude that God is real.
Honest praise is difficult to start, and hard to stop.
It is a tragedy that it often takes a tragedy for some to seek God.
Walking with God is an exercise in learning how to love.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Encourage the encourager.
Flee the complainer.
Lend a hand to the working hand.
Sit by the learned.
Speed mercy.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Everyone has a birthday and a death day what happens in between is what matters.
Buy the truth and sell it not.
May your principles have no price tag!
Where you have been is a small issue, where you are going, is the big issue.
Shelter your good memories and shed your bad ones.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The fear of pain is very restrictive.
Total acceptance is totally impossible, unless you are God.
Concern in the beginning of responsibility!
It is not falling in love but staying is love that is the challenge.
Most people stay married for the best but divorce when the worse shows up.
Today is the furneral for a very good friend, Reverend Robert Whitaker. He was in business of giving cups of very cool water to many, many, very thirsty people. He sowed love and reaped hope with every sermon he preached. See you soon Bob!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Pain is more than a temptation.
Pain and misery do not have to share the same space.
Pain can drive away comfort but not a smile.
Pain puzzles our faith, whether emotional or physical.
Pain is temporary but terrible none the less.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
If your marriage is on the rocks, it will take both of you to throw them overboard.
Every new day is stuffed with potential.
Love is not blind but it is compassionate.
What you do is your ultimate testimony.
Hunger for what you can give not what you can keep.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Few people are experts on kindness.
You can be open hearted without being empty headed.
Die changing something!
When expectations become priorities, then, they become reasons for purpose.
Children tend become the lumps in blended marriages.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Give until it stops hurting.
Every friend is a pillar of hope.
You may not be as important as you had hoped but you are likely more valuable than you thought.
Chocolate is packaged happiness.
People tend to be more judgmental about what they know least about.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Memories ripen with time.
You have to put a lifetime in to your life span, no matter the length.
Spending time with temptation is pre-forfeiture of your character.
In marriage, love in enduring or useless.
You are never too tired for happiness.
Friday, March 12, 2010
It will always cost you more to do wrong, than to do right.
Understanding is watered by internal perspiration.
It is disconcerting to be understood, and perplexing to be misunderstood.
The better you see life, the better life becomes.
Whatever you are given cost someone else.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
People have too much health insurance and life insurance but not enough Eternity insurance.
You cannot show respect to others without telling them the truth.
If you cannot tell the truth in love, leave them in ignorance.
Tenderness is the feeling side of toughness.
Prejudice is the podium you stand on to proclaim your stupidity.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Poverty is a better teacher than success.
The worst kind of poverty is not financial poverty.
Laughter is Natures medicine.
Hit somebody with a smile today!
Measure your giving by the needs you see.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Talent is important but effort is priceless.
Priorities represent the application learning.
Politics is a form of the riskiest temptation.
Few can survive the easy availability of power.
Teaching someone else to do right is a great way to be right.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Only poke fun in a way you would like it to be poked.
Every day has its rough edges as well as its silver lining.
Diligence is a choice.
Sow respect reap honor.
Happiness is more contagious than misery.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
The awards in life are pale in comparisons to the awards of Eternity.
There are no police, social workers, no fire stations, or no hospitals in Heaven.
Pay more attention to emails from His heart to yours, than your emails from all others.
Sow as many seeds of kindness and understanding as you can, they just might grow in strange places.
A smile can be a gift as well as a reward.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Speculate about life but not about eternity.
If God is leading you, you cannot be predestined.
Speaking the truth in love is hard work!
Tell people what you should, not all you know.
Forgiveness is the best antacid.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Your weaknesses are the potholes on your road to happiness.
Whatever your temptation is; it will not better your life.
Never evaluate by what you can do, but by what they can do.
We have less in our bank account, but our lives are full.
Friendship is a result of endurance and purpose.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Love is a healthy diet to gain hope.
The more genuine your love for one another the safer your marriage will be.
All lives have winter, fewer lives are warmed with love they have not earned.
Kindness is love in action.
Love given is love earned.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Grace satisfies the hungers of temptation.
Your family is more important than your conflict.
The choice to succeed is yours alone; God has already made His.
There is more power available for your success than there is evil for your failure.
Faith and Grace provide an impenetrable wall against evil.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Temptation always requires you to ask yourself the wrong questions.
Power is a result of Faith.
Divorce is the process of stealing from your family.
Every successful marriage is a special miracle.
Soul poverty is a token of greed.