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.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Only sell what can be bought again.
Pray, plan, believe and then set off in that direction.
God is and will be wherever you are!
Knowledge becoming wisdom is not natural, only spiritual.
If you are not a Christian you are wired to fear.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Vivid Faith enlightens darkness.
Demons are nourished by the neglect of your spiritual life.
Have zeal only for what you need not repent.
Your sins are less pricy than costly.
The presence of God overshadows all other presence.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Challenge yourself first, others second.

Teach what you live and others will live what you teach.

Mold your mind around Truth and you will know what to do!

Pay as much attention to what is prayed as you do to what is preached.

The Hope you have was likely given to you in prayer.

Monday, June 27, 2011

If your confrontation with Christ did not dramatically change your life, you did not meet Him!

The perseverance of the soul brings a harvest of faithfulness and happiness.

Wisdom is the ability to differentiate between good and evil.

A successful life is the application of wisdom.

God is not your partner - but your Lord!

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Unity is the will of the body of believers, to do what they were previously unwilling to do.

Give out of faith not fear.

Your willingness provides the opportunity for other to become willing.

When you meet Jesus, you will change one way or another!

Lessons learned often brings healing to the bumps and bruises of life.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

God is pleased by your Faith and angered at your lack of it.

It is because of your weaknesses that God offers His strength.

Occasionally, Satan will give you what you want but he never gives you what you need, never!

Grace neutralizes all fears!

No one does what he knows is evil willingly; he must first be deceived and then he must justify.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Love is a gift your friends can celebrate.

Fear isolates you from hope.

Fear is the coat of the cowardly.

Do you really want evil to win over good? So often you have the choice!

Fear weakens the foundations of your future.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Everyone worships but fewer worship God.

The comfort of the Comforter is comforting!

It is His Grace that gives you Faith!

Only a Christian can be comforted and frustrated at the same time.

Don’t do what a preacher is saying; only do what God says the preacher should be saying!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Your talent is God’s gift to you; your development and use of your talent is your gift to God.

My weaknesses are mine alone but my yielding to them affect so many others and especially those who love me and the ones I love.

The comfort of the Comforter is sufficient.

God sends the Comforter; there is no other.

Prayer is less about what you have to say and more about what He is saying and about His comforting you.

God is not away, only you can be.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Communication is a willingness to understand.

Communication is the ability to say and hear more than what is said.

To truly communicate, one must dismiss his/her prejudices.

The more bias you have, the less you understand.

Bias and principle are not the same.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Sacrificing is giving up something you would like for the good of another.

The greater the sacrifice, the more lasting the value, to one who can, or cannot, ever give back.

Selfishness is the ultimate enemy of a robust soul.

Parents do not own children; they are a gift from God.

The prayers of parents are the child’s best friends in their times of temptation.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father’s Day is a day of opportunity to be a real dad.

Children walk where fathers have gone.

Few children escape their father influence, and few should.

A father must love his children before he can fix any of them.

Sons and daughters do what fathers have done.

Fathers, pray before you say!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Faith is more difficult to exercise than Hope.

Faith and hope are both easier to accept than love.

Prayer is the best means of knowing God better.

Pray for those who say they don’t need God or your prayers.

The more cheerful you are the more thankful you will become.

Friday, June 17, 2011

The lighter your load feels; the greater your faith exertions.

God always spurs you towards love.

Who is in charge of your life? Thus who is responsible for your life?

Christian love always improves your work.

Learn to carry your responsibilities in a good way.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

It is better to blunder in love, than to succeed at hate.

Learn to embrace hard work as a partner in your life’s journey.

Never waste you time chasing what God has promised to give.

A good day’s work provides a good night’s sleep.

God does not improvise; He promises!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Work is not the enemy, laziness is!

The satisfaction of doing a good job exceeds whatever laziness has given you.

Feed the needy; starve the lazy.

Whatever you have done for another never returns unrewarded.

Satisfaction is one portion of joy.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The more successful you become; the more your soul is endangered.

Try to understand the lives of those you love.

Sanity is the proper application of love.

Right needs no justification, wrong is always unjustifiable.

Be careful never to lose anything eternal.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Miracles cause memories!

Even small faith reaps huge dividends.

More money can be earned but lost time is gone.

The second mile is the most meaning mile.

Faith and miracles are related to one another.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Have you raised any dust on the enemy streets lately?

It is easier to recapture lost money, than to remedy a lost relationship.

Non-Christians are certain of their uncertainties.

Faith makes heroes of ordinary people.

Success means you got a lot of help.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Often the question is not how much you have but what can you do without?

You do not serve to believe but you serve because you believe.

If you know you are great; your aren’t.

Humility is understanding that God actually is working through even you.

It does not matter how big your problems are it is a matter of how huge God is!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Your good works are apart of your testimony.

Selfish pride causes a form of insanity.

God will provide what you need when He knows you need to receive it.

Sanity is recognizing that you really do need God.

Life is not about how much you have but it is about how much you love.

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Atheism is a result of coming to the wrong conclusion.

Prayer needs no formal training other than a confidence in His help.

Grace brings understanding, understanding brings wisdom, wisdom brings good deeds.

Service is a rare privilege that few pursue.

Service is a complicated blessing; but a blessing it is!

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Christmas in the beginning and Easter the ending of our salvation.

Hope is the beginning of future reality.

Life brings the gifts of sorrows and possibilities.

Negativism tend to abide in the cave of impossibilities.

Never infringe on the Faith of another.

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Prayer changes your possibilities.
 
You don't need a passport to pray around the world.

Often the best prayers come from the lips of the worst people.

No prayer goes unheard or unanswered.

Prayer should have more effect on your circumstances; than your circumstances have on your prayers.

The benefits of prayer, first occur, while you are praying!

Monday, June 06, 2011

Purpose is the foundation of fervent prayers.

Learn to pray believing prayers.

Prayer unleashes the Glories of God when His will intersects with your life.

Hate bring personal chaos.

Prayer always provides a double blessing.

Saturday, June 04, 2011

If you are worthy of honor God allowed it.

Too often honor is given to the dishonorable.

By the way, God did not make you to be somebody else!

If you are willing God will make you successful.

God measures by the size of your heart not your wallet.
 
 

Service inflates life; selfishness deflates life.

You cannot increase your authority without increasing your responsibility.

If you are not different from others you are not yourself.

Selfishness it toxic to your life and those around you.

A Christian ought to be thoroughly saturated with love.

An idol is something you hope can do what you know it cannot.

An idol is a way to avoid responsibility.

An idol is whatever I put between me and God.

God is not an idol He is your Creator.

Your Creator loves you an idol has no love.

Christmas is Christ birthday, Easter provides for your second birthday!

Never allow circumstances to restrict your prayers.

There is more of God than you can comprehend.

The purpose of Jesus is to give you a purpose.

Grace protects the possibility of an enduring individual peace.

Friday, June 03, 2011

Never underestimate what it is like to be in the Presence of God.

It is easier to prove God than it is to deny Him.

Prayer is how we move the mercy of God.

Prayer is the tap root of Faith.

Prayer helps the believer, believe.