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.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

His best in your life is a result of someone's prayers.

The enemy of prayer is despair.

One ally of prayer is Hope.

Prayer is a cup of cool water for both the prayer and prayed for.

Prayer is pleasing the Father.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Love is a gift you celebrate with friends and share with your enemies.

The more you learn, the less you have to suffer through things.

If you have met Jesus you will change one way or the other,

Fear bears the seeds of chaos.

To fear for your future is to surround it with despair.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Change is usually a result of a feeling of failure and forgiveness.

It is the enormous Love of God that gives you the power for a positive change.

Christmas without Easter would have left no mark on history.

The mystery of the Gospel is that Jesus found me not that I found Him!

The joyous rapture in the soul is your reward for seeking Him.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Don’t be surprised when you realize how much God loves you, just enjoy the fact that He does.

Change almost always comes from the inside out.

Love is like living at the door of hope.

True devastation is the lack of God.

Your love for God tends to be a reaction, while His for you was planned!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How understanding you are determines how useful you will become.

Bargain only for the good, as it is priceless, make no bargain for bad, for it always becomes the ugly.

Laugh with the good; as evil must carrie its own sorrows.

Wise men do what they know to be right!

Fate is when the prepared meet an opportunity.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Welcome to best Monday! If Friday was Good Friday, then this must be the Best Monday ever!

Knowledge without wisdom provides a special form of ignorance.

Never confuse where I am with where I should be!

Sometimes to tackle a problem you must loose your foothold.

Little thing are big things broken into parts.

Do enough of the little things and you will get the big thing done.
 

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Without the Cross there could be no empty tomb!

The tomb is empty so your heart will not have to be!

Everyday of a Christian’s life, the Cross, and the Empty tomb take on new meanings.

Faith is the gift of Easter and Hope is the gift of Faith.

By Faith, someday, your tomb will be empty as well!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The passion of God is you; that is why Easter is celebrated.

No other religion has a risen Savior!

His pain was your pain, returned to you as love.

Good Friday was terrible but Sunday is on the way!

Christmas was so Easter could be!

Friday, April 22, 2011

Easter is sacrificial living/dying/living at its finest.

Jesus did what He needed to do, not what He wanted to do.

Easter is your freedom day!

Christmas is happiness; Easter is great joy.

The cross was not an accident; neither was the empty tomb!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Wisdom is the beginning of understanding.

Wisdom is seldom spontaneous.

Knowledge knows; wisdom does!

True wisdom is the application of understanding.

To be wise is good; to do nothing with it is foolish.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

We all need more than we want, and want more than we need.

Governments tend to be more self-serving, than citizen serving!

Politician tend to be more concerned about reelection than doing what they were elected to do.

Wisdom is distilling the behaviors of others to apply to new circumstances.

Wisdom is a collection of truth applied to need.
 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The focus of your race determines the value of your journey.

Quit your failures before you suffer greater losses.

When I see Jesus always, I have perfect vision.

The everyday Christian is the only one, blessed every day!

One blessing is better than a lifetime of misery.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Your soul is on an everlasting journey in this life and into the next one; your decisions here will determine what will happen there. Never allow the temporary to manipulate the eternal. Our lives tend to be entangled in the temporary. If you are weary in well doing, you are too tired! Too many folks are racing to succeed at the wrong things.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Linger near your prayers each day. Whatever I have will be taken from me; whatever I have given can never be taken away. Wasted time tends to gauge the meaningfulness of our lives. Rest and relaxation are not wasted time! All of your time away from God is wasted time.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

To be at your best you often must overcome your worst! The more I choose to sin, the more devastated my life becomes. I am not going to Heaven to receive a “tongue lashing” but to receive “Grace!” I am going to Heaven not to review my sins, weakness, and failures; but I am going into the arms of a loving Father who sent mercy and love my way here on earth. Too often our prayers are not that often!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Endurance is the energy of success. The finish line in life may not be movable but is reachable. Your finish line begins with obedience and ends with perseverance. Only the dead can be perfect but theliving should head in that direction. Luck is when the hand of hope grasps a hand of work.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

What I know primes the pump of what I believe and what I do. Only the Grace of God can untangle the confusion of this life; look for none other! Your best friends may be in the future. Do the best you can to overcome the worst you could be. The parameters of your life will be determined by your attitudes, actions, and accomplishments - plus Grace.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

If you have learned to love the wrong things, your zest for the right things tend to falter. Triumph requires difficulties. Difficulties bring the lessons of perseverance. Happiness penetrates gloom and doubt, while driving back the darkness about you. When His purposes become your purposes you are at peace

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Trust builds trust. Find a church that touches lives outside the church. The joy of doing right exceeds the difficulties and disappointments you incurred in the journey to do it. Is your Faith discouragement proof? Is your Faith the type that discourages others from exercising their Faith?

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Life without hope is the beginning of misery. Excellence is a result of cultivating Devine leadership in your life A committee is a group of believes surrounded by expectations anchored by trust, filled with hope, trying to do what individuals were afraid to do. Too often we forget we are reading with glasses and writing with pencils with erasers on them! It is hard to have faithful hearts with empty heads.

Friday, April 08, 2011

Truth anchors Faith. Truth trumps doubt. Truth tramples fear. Truth provides vision. Truth strengthens resolve.

Thursday, April 07, 2011

The best from God is always headed your way. The best person in Hell will the best person on earth without Christ. Love that does not flow spoils. The Father sent His son so that you might know you are loved. Weak folks believe in their church; strong folks believe in Jesus.  

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Jesus is the water of life no one lives without water! When truth is revealed one believes or a lie is born. When truth has to explained usually folks are looking for a way around it. Success is not getting what you want but doing what you ought. When you don’t know where to go turn right.  

Monday, April 04, 2011

We tend not to differentiate between discomfort and affliction. Satan is out to compromise your effectiveness each and every day. Satan effectiveness is hindere4d when you acknowledge his existence. The weakest people believe in chance the strongest believe in hard work. Sin blinds us to sin.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Make the angels watching over you proud! Service is a complicated blessing. Faith startles fear! Everyone else’s place is taken; the problem is your place! You were created to be who you are not someone else!

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Honor can only be obtained when it was not the purpose of behavior. Honor is rarely earned but often claimed. Never fall in love with an honor someone bestows on you. Hope is not held hostage by circumstances. Enjoy your life you are the only one who can.