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.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Being able to find the value in others increases your own.

Praise often, pout never!

Give forgiveness and get forgiveness!

Learn to thrive in the Hand of the Father!

Having abundance of the Spirit beats any abundance in the bank!

Monday, June 28, 2010

As a Christian you are a miracle; just pay attention to what is happing!

Become a neighbor to the one who has none.

A helping hand is hard to bite.

Why is it often easier to bear others burdens than our own?

Jesus volunteered to be your Good Shepherd!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

An unforgiving heart bears a price no one wants to pay.

Praying for strength, brings strength.

Give what you want to keep; only keep what you are willing to lose.

Never is a long time to live without redemption; better now than never!

A smile can crack a stone heart.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Your night life should reflect your day life!

Your enemies never want to share your heavy heart.

Do your best and leave the rest.

Do not pray if you can give only pray what you should give.

The sight of a need should motivate you to pray and do.

Friday, June 25, 2010

It is better to know where you are going that to know where you have been!

Not deciding is usually the worst decision.

Giving happiness is extraordinarily wonderful.

Why is it harder to give a break than to take a break?

Happiness is not a secrete but a choice you make for yourself and can offer to others.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

If you get through life without love, you will have not survived.

Doing better than you have is the only progress you will ever make.

Worry trumps happiness!

You must do what you haven’t, to do what you can.

Difficulty is price of accomplishment.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Dumb decisions can alter your life forever; so can smart ones.

If people say you laugh too much they likely laugh too little.

Win your own respect and others will value it as well.

Rejoicing improves every other aspects of your life.

Life has no erasers only forgiveness.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A squandered moment represents the loss of life.

Tears can improve your vision of others needs.

Fill your life with purposeful incidents rather than casual happenings!

Plan on out living, your life.

A loveless life is a valueless life.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

A father who lives in the lives of his children never counts the cost.

Being a father is far more of an honor than a sacrifice.

The joy of walking a daughter down the isle exceeds every business deal a father ever made!

A son’s success is a father’s honor.

Treasuring their mother is the most valuable gift a father can give his children.

To comprehend comfort, one must experience suffering.

What you gave up will never return; but what you have gained can never be taken away.

Decide before the door is closed!

Some live in a melody that they cannot sing, others fear the song they are singing.

A broken heart sees more clearly, another broken heart.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

You can only change the ending not the beginning.

All experiences are not mistakes but some will be.

The problem with high school and college is that there are too few jobs taking test.

To wonder about love is a much heavier burden that to experience it.

God’s love never measures short.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Never rush through moments that you ought to cherish!

When your feelings collapse, life’s purpose fades into darkness.

The more you know the less you are certain.

Living vibrant is your best contribution to living.

Only a spiritual life can give you the strength to live your physical life abundantly.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Discipline is the key to almost everything.

The longer you live the more you are impacted by stupidity.

When you stop learning you die before your time.

Your attitude dictates your character.

To live life without loving is hazardous, dangerous and results in complete failure.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

When you do not know God, everything you have accomplished is meaningless to you in the end.

You can give no Grace not given to you.

Miracles come not from your efforts but from God’s faithfulness to your faith.

The greenest grass is where someone has worked their hardest.

It takes a Great Shepherd to make great pilgrims.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Put your treasures in the Sheppard’s purse.

Whatever you add to Grace takes away from it!

What God has done will not be undone by any amount of unbelievers.

May your righteousness exceed your correctness!

Discontentment is the cancer of happiness.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Pressure does not effect righteousness.

The pilgrim of Grace never falls far enough, that he cannot rise again.

Being satisfied in your life is a choice; it is a gift from your Shepherd.

Be a beacon of Grace for those who are following your life!

The pilgrim of Grace always has enough!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Prosperity is the termite of faith and humility is the only cure.

Our circumstance is the excuse we use to bury our faith.

Your most significant battle in life is finding the balance between the spiritual and the secular.

Everyone must expand their minds to comprehend even the smallest bit of Grace.


You have to justify your judgment but truth stands in no need of justification.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Our Faith allows us to live taller than our fears.

The need in your life, left unmet by God, is not a need but a desire.

You cannot not legislate love only war.

Faith is the best form of freedom.

The condition of your heart gives you enough strength to cause fear to flee.

Friday, June 11, 2010

How much time are you giving the Shepherd to do His shepherding?

How is His inexpressible love affecting you today?

It is not what you have done or accomplished for God that should impress you; but what God has done through you that should amaze you!

Peace is the fruit of Faith.

When you run out of things to say, praise!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Jesus has chosen to be your Good Shepherd.

God has given you the ability to love or hate Him, for now.

Your choices will determine you final altitude, be it high or low, up or down.

Whatever, God does in your life will bless the believers and stress the deceivers.

The Cross was the beginning of your shepherding.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

God cannot be contained in your mind.

You do not have enough gray matter to understand God matters!

Everyone, who is a Christian, becomes famous to God!

There are no secretes in Heaven; so you best get ready for that.

God makes your insignificance into significant.

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Fame is over rated and value is undervalued.

Terrorist fear the future more than they value the present.

Heaven is full of completed promises.

Doing a little bit can affect a lot.

Holiness is a gift from God just like Salvation.

Holiness is yours to protect and nurture.

Monday, June 07, 2010

Jesus died for Muslims too!

Christ is the ransom for worry.

All, of everything valuable, is found in Jesus!

A home contains whatever you have added to it.

What could you have done when you should have?

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Joy leads to enjoy!

Live in the middle and rest in the margins, but stay in the Book!

My faith must exceed my ability.

Humility is a result of hearing God clearly.

Hope is the optimism of faith.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Forgiveness is Grace at work. When Christ forgives us it has nothing to do about our deserving forgiveness. He forgives us because of God's Fatherly love for us and for the price His son paid for you and me. So forgiving ourselves is our way of honor God’s forgiveness of us. If you deserved forgiveness that it would not be forgiveness.

The focus of a Christian life must be on the new treasures that Christ is giving you and not on the failures and sins of the past. Paul reminds us to put those things behind us and to press towards the mark of the high calling of Jesus.

Only Satan wants you to dwell on the past. Christ died for you that you might have a future. The Bible reminds us Jesus wants us to be free and if you are in bondage to that past His grace is being wasted by you.

Forging yourself is opening the door to the abundant life Christ has set before you.

Learn to enjoy the joy!

Time is the amount of money you have to spend in life; it can be invested but not saved.

Atheism and worry are best friends.

Showers and tears are refreshing.

A good marriage is when both parties love the other more than they deserve.

Few failures need be permanent.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

It is hard to keep on fire next to the lukewarm Chruistian.

Christianity is not a desire but a commitment.

A genuine Christian finds it impossible to carry a cross and prejudice at the same time.

Selfishness has difficulty recognizing kindness.

The crippled of heart are crippled indeed!

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

The optimist drills on the ocean floor: the pessimist moves away from the shore.

Open your heart to kindness and your head to understanding.

Doing beats stewing.

Lies interfere with your memories.

Salvation is one of the few things in life you can know for sure!

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Poke and hope or pinch and flinch, but life will happen either way!

Retirement is when you do more with less.

You cannot fail doing the Will of God, impossible!

Truth is not about degrees rather commitments.

Believing means; you can exercise your Faith for what you can’t do.