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, February 29, 2012

“God is faithful even when we are not.”  Ryan Butcher
Predestination is for the Christian not for the unbeliever.
God has no sympathy for your excuses.
God knows what will bring you happiness and leads you towards it.
Christians lack nothing to become godly but effort.
You were made to be who you are and to be here now!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

There are no “normal Christians” only unique ones!
Every Christian is supernatural… none average!
A Christian is made out of shattered wonderfulness.
You are either better then you were or worse than you should be!
Predestination is about sanctification not salvation.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Prayer is the window through which I can see my purpose in life.
Faith is the willingness to believing God is right.
A person who darkens the lives of others lives in abject poverty.
When you can do nothing else but pray you have arrived at the door of Faith.
In Christ you can do all things… so what are you leaving undone?

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Hate plants self-doubt in your heart whose fruit is self-destruction.
What are you doing that will be totally useless in eternity?
Every Prayer is a request for mercy or acknowledge of it.
Prayer is a process of putting your heart into words.
Thoughts are pre-ideas.
"Getting your house in order" really means do what God want you to do!

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Heaven provides absolute “border control.”
Leaders point to the way to success, a dictator drives them towards their goal.
Hate poisons your thought life and only love can restore it.
The Rapture rests in the Hands of God not in the theology of men.
The question is not who you are but… whose you are!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Without Faith a man becomes destitute.
A Christian is here to reflect the possibilities of Faith.

As a Christian, your new ways must be different than the old ways.
Jesus set up a “spiritual WIFI” at the cross.

As Christian you are the ambition of Jesus.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Leadership is directing workers from a job to success.
Be relative by being unique.
When you do right other may see it as doing wrong.
You need to access who you were to find out who you are.
Are you doing enough right to disturb evil?
A man who darkens the life of another lives in the deepest form of darkness!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Make no rules to excuse your failures.
Whenever you are “show off” you are off!
In order to stay in step with God watch His steps!
Either God is the center of your purpose or you have no purpose.
Being true to others is difficult; being true to your own self is mandatory.
Leadership is causing other to do what that should instead of what they would.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Whenever men decide what truth is, they need to check with God to see if they are right.
Pain can cause the presence of God to be deceptive.
Whatever power you have is on loan.
When you recite your blessings, don’t forget to thank the author.
What we do for God need not be perfect, only purposeful.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Principle not based on truth is wrong.
Beliefs are the result of faith.

At the cross, God, recycled Himself to the world, not counting their sins against them!
A Christian is a wonderfully flawed person.

All men who reject God are irresponsible.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

It is easier to blame than accept the shame.
May the breadth of your life exceed the length of your life!
What I do is the definition of who I am.
Even if you agree with me, you can still be wrong!
You really have no rights to demand in life; life is a gift and a privilege

Friday, February 17, 2012

Doing nothing, instead of doing something good is bad.
Wisdom is not demanding of God, but following Him.
Just because you could doesn’t mean you should.
You can never “out love” God but you can imitate Him.
God’s love is about willingness; so should yours!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

If you are the center of attention and a Christian, you are doing something terribly wrong.
Your choices are what limits your blessings.

You cannot always deliver yourself from evil, but God always can!
Anger must guard its own hurts.

Whenever you feel anger, lookout for shame.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Unending Grace is the fuel of Christian love.
Jesus is perfect. You are flawed, but the Perfect came to help the flawed.
What good you do is because God helps you do, but you still must do the doing.
If you think you are a mirror image of God, step away from the mirror… Now!

God is more concerned with your willingness to give, than with what you give.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Holiness is a pursuit but sanctification is a gift.
Without Jesus, you will always be lonely.

Happiness is refined joy.
Grace is impossible to understand until you learn to forgive the unforgivable.

Your life can never be recycled, only lived each moment.

Monday, February 13, 2012

We are inebriated with plenty and neglect the needs of others.
Your life validates your faith….or not!

You can only appreciate the value of God’s gifts to you, that you willingly recognize.
Darkness is never quite as great as when you choose to remain blind.
True ignorance is a conscious decision to shun truth.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Pierce the darkness about you with a smile of hope.
If you are not who you were made to be, you are a failure!
Satan spends his time trying to confuse your pre-faith.
Your allegiance becomes your direction.
When you become like another, you lose you originality.

Friday, February 10, 2012

If you think you understand Grace, you are being deceived.
A sacrifice of love is not a sacrifice; it is a gift.
Is God just occupying your life or have you surrendered it all Him?
The Love of God surrounds you; accessing it is your choice.
If you are not being yourself, you are a fake; without God you can never be yourself!

Thursday, February 09, 2012

In order to leave a mark on someone’s life, you need to reach out from yourself.
Make demands only of yourself; leave others to God.
Never demand of yourself what God has not demanded of you
Bear what you cannot forgive as a badge of shame.
Divine is what you see when you recognize God is working in your life.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

You are an original don’t become a copy!
Only a Christian can become what they were designed to be.

Your life should be more than a reflection it should become a conduit for God.
What Jesus has done for you expands what you can do in life.

The kingdom of Hope is sparsely populated.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

The truth is illogical to those who have chosen to believe a lie.
Negativism is doubt at work.

Without Jesus the world is consumed with fruitless faith.
Hostility is the natural reaction to uncomfortable truths.

There is no agony like the pain of an unforgiving heart.

Monday, February 06, 2012

In my worthlessness Gods sees my value but, to Satan, I will always be worthless, except for bait for his revenge.
We live in a world intoxicated with evil; challenged by a church infected with doubt.

Life is a revelation of your faith.
Jesus became worthy for you.

The love of God surrounds a Christian but it is up to them to reveal it.

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Reputation is what people think “about you,” character is what you “are.”                 
Sanctification is the beginning of what will not end.                                                         
Contentment is the Christian’s manna.
Pride is a disease of the soul.

If you have all the grace you want, you need to have greater wants.

Friday, February 03, 2012

To reflect Jesus, I need to move out of the picture.
Comparisons to others are the poorest way to measure your progress; only measure against what you were before.

Have no faith in the “casting of lots.”
Truth needs no shade.

The “chosen”are not lucky; but  they are the forgiven!

Thursday, February 02, 2012

My offering to You, oh God, is of no value, but my willingness to offer it to You, You greatly value.
Until you have given your tithe, you have not given anything.
Jesus will have always given more than what you have given.
Are you with God or are you asking God to be with you?
Character is the cement of principle.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Today is one portion of your life that will never be returned.
Service is the activity ingredient of mercy.

The only thing that can be forgiven is what I have chosen; God has already chosen to forgive whaevert I ask.
What I forgive on earth will be forgiven in Heaven...what you can't He won't.

Heaven and Hell are both beyond our imagination... for different reasons.