A hero is anyone who does what he can in spite of his fears.
Freedom is a costly blessing.
They are of equal value; what I die for and what I live for!
The blessing of freedom come with a heritage of sacrefice.
The second mile is the first mile of importance.
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.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Christianity is the first to swap religion for a relationship.
You don’t have to yell to wake up God when you pray; but it may wake up others in the congregation.
You will leave your money and reputation behind.
Count your blessing here, see your blessings there.
It is only your Heavenly account that counts.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Too many of life’s difficulties are usually, cleanup projects, from our bad decisions.
Just because it is your opinion does not mean it is right.
Generally, life is full of what you chose.
Christianity is the only religion that isn’t one.
Always check your experiences by the Word.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Today makes 47 years of being on our way to Heaven together. Carol is such a wonderful woman, with whom to share that journey; how blessed I am!
Manage is a home without walls; wherever we are, we are together.
Love is a single blossoms from duel hearts.
Love protects, directs, admire and gives what it can when it can‘t.
Marriage is a ring of love revolving around a never ending commitment.
Love sees you as pretty in youth and beautiful in old age.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Often progress involves understanding rather than direction.
Flowers and music should be at home in every part of your life.
A compliment brings value to the giver and the receiver.
Rain hope, harvest honor.
Do others feel better in your presence?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
New friends are not designed to replace old ones.
Make good enough out of the best you have.
Appreciation keeps you warm in troubling times.
When the traffic is hectic on life's road always keep right!
If you better than others you are not as good as you think.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Love is a scare commodity.
Being loved is a treasure of blessings.
Wisdom is a personal journey through knowledge.
Too many at the complaint department; too few at the praise department!
Forgiving another calms the storms in your soul.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Vulgarity always reduces the creditability of the user.
Absorb son light and dispense hope.
Hate always loses.
Love is sweet victory.
Never feather your nest at the expense of another.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Vaugarity never wins an argrument but alway lessens the user.
Worry is a step into insanity.
Worry is an unintended consequence of weakend faith.
Worry is Satan's prayer.
Worry hurts the worrier more than it helps the worried about.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pray before you say!
Pray while you do!
Say as you prayed!
Do as you prayed!
Praise to whom you prayed!
Friday, May 21, 2010
The presence of the Holy Spirit allows you to feel more than we can explain and know more than you can understand.
Grace allow you to say what you should instead of what you could.
Selfish people are consumed with themselves while righteous people are consumed with Jesus.
Whatever you cannot do with love is not worth doing.
Whatever you cannot say with love is not worth saying.
Whatever you cannot gain with love is not worth having.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Prevailing is the persistence of faith and sweat.
Love lightens the load of the loved.
The wreath always trumps wealth.
Blessed is he who bears good news in bad weather.
Your example exceeds your words.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Most new ideas are repackaged old ideas.
Old truths are much better than new wrongs.
Every life’s journey sees causalities that you could, should, and didn’t help.
Better to fail doing right than to succeed while doing wrong.
What I did or could do should never overshadow what I am doing.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
What you think is normal is not usually normal.
Feed the hungry before you preach the gospel.
Study and consequences, provide the best path to understanding.
Fear and faith do not have firm borders.
Kindness embraces the hopeless.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Accountability brings accomplishment.
Weigh your words before you toss them out.
Often, you move God more by what you do than what you pray.
Once you have cornered the truth never let go of it.
Speak wisely and you won’t need as big of a stick.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Politicians tend to get advice from those who can help them.
Few leaders lead from the middle but tend to be guided by the extremes.
Good advice is harder to follow.
Think of the effects of what you say before you burden others with its weight.
Good can never replace better.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Surround yourself with meaningful people.
Value the valuable.
Part of the worth of a man is value others place in him.
Obedience is the ultimate sacrifice.
Love binds the impossible with expectations.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Mornings never repeat themselves.
Love is constantly improving or degrading.
Every day is altered.
Memories can never be repeated or duplicated.
Jealousy is a failure to love.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Hope is a region best explored with faith.
Selfishness is epidemic by its nature.
No Christian is fooled into sinning.
Too many people are bargaining away certainty, for promises.
Insurance is a delicate balance between reality and faith.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Everyone has the ingredients to be nice but it flourishes in some and not others.
Being forced to do right is better than being forced to do wrong.
Love is the chocolate of life’s journey.
You are what you think and known by what you have done.
Living people are never completely safe.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Retirement looms like a plague of possibilities.
Retirement is like marriage you are not quite sure what you are getting into, but you cannot wait to find out!
Retirement is stuffed with projects that need no time stamps.
Not working everyday should give me time to do what I thought I was doing already.
Work is what you make of it so will be retirement.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Everybody is in a hurry but nobody is getting anywhere.
Little seems fair, when you lose.
Why is there a conflict between doing what I want to do, and doing what I need to do?
Summer is freedom in an oven.
Finding time to enjoy life sometimes lessen the enjoyment.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Today is Mother’s Day highlighting the most difficult and the most rewarding opportunity in life.
Here, a young lady changes her name, alters her body, interrupts her life, for the good of another and for the good of our society. She focus her strengths, forfeits her sleep and forever alters the destiny of humanity. She does all of this with little thanks but gains tremendous rewards.
Bless them this special day. Thank you mom, is not enough may my actions say what I cannot.
He was somewhere between obnoxious and pathetic.
The ones hardest to love often brings the greatest rewards.
If it were not for your weaknesses you would never appreciate His strength.
Feed your heart righteousness and harvest blessings.
Celebrate the successes in a brother’s life with as great enthusiasm as your own.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
The milk in human kindness is souring.
People are less confused than obstinate.
Learning from others lessens your bumps and bruises.
Pain lessens the effect of good memories.
Forgiveness cleans your life more than any other acts.
Friday, May 07, 2010
It is difficult to be perfect when you aren’t.
The possibility of possibilities is impossible to ignore.
You will soon taxed on your taxes.
Freedom will be taxed away.
We hurdle our problems slower when older.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
It is Ben's birthday today, what a wonderful grandson he is!
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Gratitude is for the past thankfulness for the future.
North of nowhere is still somewhere.
Failure makes success sweeter.
Children complicate your life in an interesting and rewarding way.
Time measures your child raising skills.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
A grasp that exceeds your need bring the temtation of greed.
Fair, is more easily measured by someone who will not benefit.
The joy of a blessing never retreats.
Rules manage people but only individuals can manage behavior.
The rule of love is stronger than the rule of power.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
The reason salvation is free is because Someone has already paid for it.
Worry is a faith issue.
Whatever you own, owns you.
Receiving is always a result of someone else giving.
Those who worry choose to limit their happiness.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Father can trouble their children by their example.
Promises are projected expectations.
The church can never do what the fathers should do.
Laughter is the melting pot of friendship.
Unity is not a simple choice.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Reform is the hardest form of change.
Politicians are surrounded with bad dreams of great people.
Truth takes root best in the hearts of believers.
Prays says what lips cannot.
Commandments can result in difficult blessings.