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.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011


Without Jesus there is no redemption.

The failure to love is the ultimate failure in life.

Without love, you missed living.

In order to find yourself you need to look upward not inward.

Never settle for what appears to be love, only for what is love.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011


It takes Grace for you to forgive and humility for you to receive forgiveness.

If you deserved forgiveness you did not need it.

To receive forgiveness is the hope of many but the precious possession of the Christian.

After you are taught you must learn.

If you don’t like yourself neither will others.

Monday, November 28, 2011


Selfishness is when you allow your importance to overcome value.

For marriage to prosper it must be driven by radical love.

Heaven is the home of those have received righteousness, not for the worthy.

When you are amazed remember God is not.

To forgive is a blessing to receive forgiveness is a miracle.

Sunday, November 27, 2011


Weather never effects truth, faith or direction.

Hope disrupts despair.

Hope gives direction to all healing but it is love that heals all wounds.

It is not that you have a soul that empowers you but your power is that you are a soul.

Hope is the demise of discouragement.

Doing good is always right.


Don’t fear your competition’s successes; fear your complaency.

Your reputation is often in the hands of your enemies but your character is yours alone.

Your failures revel your character more than your successes.

A self-sufficient man is a lonely man.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Growth will not happen without change.

Love must exceed expectation.


Parental love cannot be outsourced.


Leadership is causing others to do more than they want to do.


If you are without hope you are in the wrong place!

Thursday, November 24, 2011


Thankfulness is the hard currency of love.

Thankfulness is a journey from gratitude to understanding.

Whenever you are thankful, others are blessed as well.

Thankfulness runs from the first prayer through the last answer.

Being thankful for what you have is normal; being thankful for what others have is insight.


Practice creative thankfulness today.

Understated you need to be thankful for has not happened as much as what has.

Be thankful by Faith it clears the way for the future.

Whenever you are thankful you are preparing your own blessings.

Learn to be thankful for whatever you could, would, and should, be thankful.

For a Christian, every day is a day of Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Part of the reason Jesus went to the cross was His faith in you.

Listen to my works to hear what I believe.

You can find the worth of a man in his grandchildren.

Faith brings obedience to what I believe.

Service is distilled love.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Living truth is one way I love God.

Whatever you have not given to God is worthy of your fear.

Grace does not give you what you want but what God wants.

To know what I believe watch what I do!

Integrity is the fruit of Faith

Monday, November 21, 2011

Whatever your goal, no matter how pure, first must be filtered through your attitude.

Your attitude provides the atmosphere that others about must breathe.

Character is a choice you make, overriding feelings and attitudes.

Humility is presenting God with a proper attitude.

Faith allows me to live alive.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

A Christian must move away from God to have a bad attitude.

It is not always convenient to do right.

You do not have to want to do right to do right.

You are the first victim of a bad attitude.

Your attitudes expresses your character.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Is the purpose of your argument to be right or to unite?

Right is too often dressed by us for us.

God is right; you could be right.

Grace is what gives man an opportunity to be a real man.

You can be respectfully right; you cannot be respectfully wrong.

I can disagree with you and be wrong but you cannot disagree with right and be right.

Friday, November 18, 2011

A father’s treasure is the blessings of his children.

A Christian always strives to do as “He” pleases.

Men don’t make good women, so stop trying to change them.

Women should not think like men, so don’t expect them to.

Feelings direct too much of our behaviors.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

You must be willing for God to complete you.

Only God can make you greater than yourself!

What you can see through God’s eyes you could never have seen alone.

Whenever you fail to love, someone feels the pain.

You cannot escape God but you can refuse to enjoy Him.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Love someone else to better yourself.

Life has its burdens but prayer is your packhorse.

The miracles that are occurring around you often go unnoticed.

Even if you are in a valley, you are never alone.

Divide by prayer and conquer with love.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Vision is the ability to understand what you are seeing.

Doing life your way is hurtful, painful, and deadly.

Rhyme without reason is ridiculous.

Whenever you wink at sin, someone is hurt.

May the results of your life feed those who will follow it.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Without God, you can never be yourself!

Introspection is a marriage of your own making.

You must know God to know yourself.

The unbelievers are constantly struggling to find out what Christians already know.

There is no reality without Faith.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Discovering the meaning of truth without God is impossible.

Living a truth causes that truth to shine.

The “Pearl of Great Price” cannot be found after death.

Loving your neighbor as yourself, may require help from God.

To love your neighbor more than yourself, means, you have to love God more than your neighbor.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Peace is joy set free by faith. Faith is the foundation of peace. Without faith there is no peace of any meaningful degree. Peace is not dependent on the circumstances of life and totally dependent on the circumstances of your soul.

Dirt plus the Breath of God equals a soul.

Life is a string of possibilities that require choices from you.

Fear becomes a stoplight for your prayers of faith.

To do or not to do is the question; to be or not to be, is your answer.

Repentance and faith brings guaranteed forgiveness.

Friday, November 11, 2011

The cost of a broken promise is an eternal bill.

Never hunt for love; be found instead around its campfire.

Forgiveness only mitigates guilt, not consequences.

Doubting God is a sign of weakness.

There is no cure for a broken promise; only new promises bring possibilities.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Whatever you exchanged for God was a bad deal.

Silence has a way of reaching into your soul.

Be careful of what you care for.

It is easier to develop good habits than it is to break bad ones.

A flicker of hope beams brighter light than a bonfire from evil.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Doing good for our enemies puzzles them.

Demons dress better these days but cause the same torment.

Satan cannot destroy faith; only you an dismantle it.

Contentment is the marriage of peace with love.

Sow, hope, reap happiness.

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Purpose is the uranium of Spiritual power.

Seek God’s purpose to find your purpose.

How far are you willing to live from truth? That is how far you are from God.

Christian are never helpless.

Fear causes you to focus on the wrong things.

Monday, November 07, 2011

Bitterness lacks forgiveness.

A redeemed heart is better than a good heart.

A redeemed heart has to become a good heart.

Legalism is spiritual bondage.

Criticism paralyzes possibilities.

Blessings to Billy Graham, Mark Capps, and my son all special birthdays today!

Sunday, November 06, 2011

The presence of God never flees you.

Christians are the ambassadors of happiness.

Lord, fill me with your presence so emptiness never plagues me.

It is hard to be successfully humble.

Christians should always be prepared to be thankful.

Saturday, November 05, 2011

What is on your mind becomes the lead dog.

Think God’s way and live God’s way to become godly.

One of the most difficult things for an atheist to do is to think without faith.

Light absorbs darkness, so darkness flees light.

The more you love others the more valuable you become.

Friday, November 04, 2011

Integrity is the cement of honesty.

Learn to speak compassion fluently.

Learn to pray fervently for the hurts of others.

Learn to understand what is worth learning.

Find out what is true about God; it is worth knowing.

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Friends are more precious than gold.

Your body enjoys the health of your Spirit.

Purposeful love is the only meaningful love!

The difference between old and new is experience.

Every freedom must be disciplined to remain free.

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

The more we try to protect ourselves, the more vulnerable we become.

It is not how good you are; it is how good God is!

Crippling fear or overcoming faith…your choice.

Fear shackles faith.

Faith without hope is just imagination.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Whatever you have, burdens your life.

Whatever you give is yours forever.

The fear of being hurt cause more pain than it cures.

God does have time for you today.

Live fully; God has your back.