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, November 30, 2010

You do well young man, if you do well.

Hope grows as it is embraced.

The thought of Heaven offers comfort and purpose to the Christian’s journey.

If it were not for Heaven, man would have little reason to live.

If were not for Hell, man would little fear of dying.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Truth needs no embellishment.

The world is full of people who embrace fractured truths.

Fractured truths are fragments of truth sown together by a deceiver.

The flavor of a half truth is more enticing than that of a whole lie.

Everyone resists an uncomfortable truth.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Extremist are only extreme to normal people.

Normal; tend to be whatever you believe to be true.

Whenever you bend or stretch truth you are creating a lie.

Truth is still truth no matter how you have compromised that truth.

Any extreme version of a truth becomes an untruth.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Faith will help you do what you can do while you can and before you can’t.

Having nothing to do means you have ceased to care.

Love only grows if you give it away.

It you are too hard on yourself you will be too hard on your others.

God’s laws are not there to frustrate you be to give a sense of place and freedom therein.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Heaven will be thrillingly wonderful.

The streets of gold will be scarcely noticed.

Heaven will be; friends without envy, jealously, or misunderstanding.

Understanding Heaven is simply beyond our capacity to comprehend.

Heaven is better than you can believe.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Kind words and/or good deeds bring Thanksgiving to any day.

It is impossible to be thankful when your soul refuses to forgive.

Learn to live how thankful, you really are!

If you are truly thankful, whatever you are thankful for, alters your life.

The more you understand who you are, and what you have been given, the more thankful you become.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

You are old when you choose to be.

You are lonely when you choose to be.

Mostly, depression is a chosen profession.

No one is useless until they choose to be.

Choose to be what you want to be.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Fortunate is a fortunate does.

A Christain is a Christian does.

As forgiveness is forgiveness does.

As love does love is cherished.

Mercy is the beginning of forgiveness.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Cataracts and conceit have the same effect on your vision.

Autumn leaves are God’s coloring paper.

Rude people are hard to impress.

When life ceases to surprise you, they close your casket.

Winter gives you more time to do less.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

If you have lost your place in line, can you celebrate the one who took your place?

Life is too dangerous to live without Faith!

War makes believers of heathens or increases their ignorance.

I would rather be blessed than lucky, any day.

Helping hands rarely see the extent of their influence.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Every step you take away from God increases your diminished capacity.

The souvenirs of your faithfulness make up the crowns you cast before Jesus one day.

A village can raise a child but only Jesus can save him.

A good example provides more power to resist temptation, more than a good word.

If you are gifted where do you think that gift came from?

Friday, November 19, 2010

Just because you have power over someone, does not mean you are better than they are.

Might never makes right; only truth makes right.

It is better to go two steps backwards, than to go a mile forward in the wrong direction.

It is better to be chastised for doing right, than to be imprisoned for doing wrong.

Your progress is only progress if you have been true to your principles.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Keep your memory full of good, by deleting the bad daily.

Working hard provides your best reference.

Put some spring in your steps before you fall.

Illness always challenges our optimism and our faith.

Prayer is the only way to clear the obstacles you cannot see.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

When you blow your own horn, no one likes the music.

The more pull you have, the better dentist you become.

Survival is not better than principle.

Expectations come either from Faith or optimism.

If your eyes are bigger than your stomach, so is your waist.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Becoming a better person does not make you a good person.

You can change but only salvation can make you a good person.

Only Jesus can give you salvation.

Do what you can, while you can, before you can’t.

To see opportunity you have to first look away from yourself.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Revival is the sleepers. Resurrection is for the dead. Which does your church need? You?

The difference between a task and an opportunity is attitude.

Faith is forward thinking; doubt is the reverse.

The more fervor you have, the further into the impossible you reach.

Taxes are government’s way of stealing.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

It is better to outlive your usefulness and to be useless all your life!

Death and taxes are not eternal.

Make as may friends as you can that you will see after the grave.

Hell is as real as Heaven!

Salvation is not a plan; it is a total change.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Measure with a tight string, your faults; and with a stretchable string, the faults of your friends.

Remember your friends see your faults but also your possibilities.

Prayer is something you initiate, but God is always listening.

The prize of life is having the souls around you, pointed to God.

Gossip is the ultimate sniper attack.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Doing right limits your friendships.

Honor should be a gift to your character, not just a happenstance of politics.

It is hard to remember what you have forgotten.

Marriage is a commitment to the happiness of another.

You can laugh and not be happy, and smile and there be no joy.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Despair is Faith in disrepair!

Youth is when you search for Faith.

Midlife is when you put Faith to the test.

Old age is when Faith brings the biggest smile.

Faith is a companion, of whom, you are never weary!


Veterans are folks who gave Freedom more than they took!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Life is less about “How blessed I am!” and more about “How can I be a blessing!”

The pessimist sees too poorly while the optimist sees too well.

The purpose of character is to have backbone under pressure.

Hard work will never replace Faith but it can hasten it!

Put a smile on the life of someone who needs it, today!

Sunday, November 07, 2010

A hug and a dollar go farther than a hug alone.

There are far more temptations in life than opportunities to do right; shun the temptations and cherish the opportunities.

Do your best to make others successful.

Church unity brings a corporate joy that cannot be found in personal joy.

If you do not agree with Jesus, you can never be right.

Saturday, November 06, 2010

When your Christian obligations become a privilege, your walk becomes a joy.

Doing your best will be of little consequence without Jesus.

When you get a promotion, do you pray for those who did not?

People are more impressed with your attitude than your circumstances.

Joy is the first fruit of obedience.

Friday, November 05, 2010

God helps shape your attitude but you change your behavior.

Attitude and behavior are yours to manage until you die, but the hurts, problem, and discouragements you cause are not yours to choose.

If your salvation did not change your life you have found the wrong savior!

First comes thankfulness and next comes gratefulness.

It takes thankfulness to be full of joy.

Thursday, November 04, 2010

The difference between right and wrong is simple right is always right and wrong is always wrong.

Fear is hope in reverse.

You can never catch up using the same behavior.

Time can be borrowed against but never repaid.

Everything I know, was learned from something or someone.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

If you have done what you could, you have done what you should.

In some cases you need “pull” to get started.

Wrong is wrong no matter what the flavor.

“Can do” usually “will do!” Can't do, never does!

Mercy is a gift, as well as a requirement.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

“Never” or "Always" is too long to project an idea, but dead-on for a truth.

Satan allows you to profit from selling your principle; but it always costs more than you gain.

Peace is a blend of resisting despair and embracing hope.

You cannot pray to often, but you can to seldom!

The acceptable is only acceptable if it is acceptable to Him.

Monday, November 01, 2010

Whatever you take from another is a debt owed!

The difference between making a “profit” and a “killing” is character.

Trickle-up economy is when your neighbor profits more and you are still blessed.

Compassion is more manly than judgment.

Doing right is less painful than asking for forgiveness.