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, March 31, 2012

If you want to increase your value, increase your Faith!
Judgment will be about what you allowed God to do with your life and what you did by yourself.

Bad examples are not the best examples.
The easier it is to see what you believe by what you are doing... the easier it will be for others to believe what you know.

A good example is more valuable than a bad one.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Contentment comes from enjoying what you have.
God has invested in you, something your church needs.
If you want to impress God, love His children!
Anxiety comes from needing what you want more than enjoying what you have.
Time is a gift that cannot be kept.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Happiness is the fizz and joy the sweetness of life, while prayer is the communication and Christ, the foundation if it all.
The end of the Christian’s journey does not exist, we travel forever in the midst of joy.
When we realize that our happiness exceeds our understanding, joy begins.
Time is the currency of human life given us only to be spent wisely and invested in others.
The “unknown” for Christians is already covered.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Faith is you treasure, time is your asset, hope is your gift and love you purpose.
You are the blessing for another’s sacrifice.
Church is not for the perfect but for the willing.
If I want to be forgiven I must first repent and then forgive.
Love without God is a wonder of uselessness bringing no lasting joy.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Hate is unresolved anger.
Forgiveness is resolved anger.
Most of our frustration is self-inflected
Proverbs "the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.” Whenever you need patience look for the reason God is allowing the delay a "God moment" is on the way!.
Success in your life means you are losing your grip and God is increasing His.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Is Christ an invited guest in your life or have you given Him your throne?
Genuine beauty is seen not with the eyes but with the heart.
You cannot understand the Grace of God, only appreciate it.
The Love of God is useless to those who won’t use it.
John 3:16 is for the living and the dying but not for the dead.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

The tenacity of hope is what Faith is all about.
To best reflect Jesus you need to move away from of the mirrow
Compassion is as compassion does!
Unending Grace is the fuel of Amazing Love.
Today is that portion of our lives that will never return.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Mercy can be because God is.
The only thing that will last forever is your choice of God’s mercy or God’s wrath.
Heaven and Hell are both beyond your imagination!
God’s call on your heart is not His need for you but your need for Him.
Character is the mortar of principle.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Are you praying without ceasing or have you ceased to pray?
If you have to demand something you don’t need it.
Without the Beauty of Jesus we are all ugly.
What moves your wallet becomes the billboard of your life.
Service is the active ingredient in mercy.

Thursday, March 22, 2012



Whatever good you have done without God will go unmentioned come Judgment Day.
The question is not can I do “good” but will I?
Fear is reverse Faith.
People will see what you are doing before they can celebrate what you have accomplished.
The Bible gives a poorly wonderful glimpse into Heaven.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

God’s love resulted in wiliness; so should ours.
His love lulls us to sleep and keeps us safe while we are awake.
God’s love is plentifully abundant.
God has more Grace than you have needs.
Without Grace you cannot do what is truly right

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Don’t celebrate the wrong things in others.
Fear, believes God is not strong enough, and believes Satan is.
Shame is God’s gift to you to know that you were wrong.
Satan uses shame to keep you from God.
Shame was given you to repent, not to reject God.

Monday, March 19, 2012

A trophy wife is the one who truly loves you.
You cannot always keep yourself from seeing, thinking, or being tempted by evil, but you can keep from becoming overcome by it.
Jesus suffered for you...but not so you could just get by!
Wisdom is a gift from the understood, to the willing to understand.
Yes, God is able to do everything but that does not mean He must.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Jesus is sufficient and without Him you are not.
Whenever you feel shame look for the sin!
Yes, God can do all but He does not have to!
Wrong is never right even if you chose to worship it.
Anger precludes shame.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Being lost is one thing; knowing that you are lost is quite another.
Every time you resist temptation you bring honor to God.
A Christian is better than they were or worse than they should be!
Your purpose describes your life.
Life without meaning is purposeless.

Friday, March 16, 2012


Christianity is more than the emotions we feel or the thoughts we think.
If you are a part of a church split, you are in opposition to God…Period.
God must be the center of your purpose or you have missed your purpose.
The more important you become in your church, the less important God becomes.
Treasure your salvation more than your accomplishments.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Jesus said if you cannot forgive others, He cannot forgive you.
The biggest hindrance in church and personal growth is lack of forgiveness.
The blessings of doing, far surpasses the thoughts of doing!
When you don’t get your way at church, does the church know it…they shouldn’t!!
Church division can never be found in the Will of God… No never!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A handful of Grace neutralizes all the evil around you.
A helping hand reveals the mercy of God.
Your soul belongs to Satan until you surrender to Jesus.
Praise is a way of magnifying your blessings.
One of the purposes of prayers is to allow you to understand your blessings and to help prepare others for theirs.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

How far I have come has less impact than the direction I am headed.
Pain can be deceptive about the presence of God.
Whatever power you have is on loan.
You are most powerful when you are held in the Hand of God.
What I do for God need not be perfect, only purposeful.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Doing right is your only right!
Life without purpose is active misery.
Never let your success lead to heart failure.
Without holiness no one will see God….No one!
Intercessory prayer is praying beyond your needs and wants.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Grace brings dignity you could gain no other way.
Grace means you will always have a choice to sin or not to sin.
Grace is the energy to do the will of God
Always and never are terms that should be applied carefully.
Truth prospers even in the desert.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Sanctification is, God, preparing a way for you to be free.
Holiness is, God, teaching you how to live free.
God put you in Christ Jesus that you would be eternally safe in Him.
Every time you resist temptation you frustrate evil.
You were made, not to be able to do all you could or should,… without God.

Friday, March 09, 2012

Faith is the foundation of Holiness, hope its cathedral, and love its purpose!      
Prayer is the process of either thanking God for a blessing or asking him for another!

The biggest blessing you ever receive from God is God!
Whenever you ask for less you receive less!
It is whenever you can ask God for more than you can hope for that you receive more than you could have expected.

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Counting your blessings improves you spiritual vision.
A Christian has more power than they know and are loved more than they can understand!
Holiness is a process of knowing God!
Holiness is acquiring the knowledge of God.
Holiness is applying what you know of God to your life.
Sanctification is what God does for you ..Holiness is what you do with it.

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

When we begin to comprehend the cost of the cross we get a glimpse of the value God has places on us!
Sanctification is abundant mercy!           
Sanctification is a gift Holiness is a journey.
Sanctification is the beginning of Holiness.
Without Sanctification I have no hope of Holiness.

Monday, March 05, 2012

Each Christian is more valuable than they could know.
Whenever you are tempted to look down on another… look closer within!
Faith, saturated with love, becomes hope!
A Christian is now part of the God’s masterpiece!
We are born with the propensity to do evil when we become a Christian; we are empowered with the propensity to do good!

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Truth is the burden of the liar.
You need not be mean to be meaningful.
What Jesus did on the Cross could not have been done any other way.
Jesus paid your debt try not to accumulate anymore!
Too often our prayers are not that often!

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Living with wants need not mean I live in discontentment.
The world lives in darkness and thinks it can see; a Christian sees the darkness and wonders why anyone would choose to live there!
As a Christian I am becoming more than I could have become.
If it were not for the Almighty, we would be stuck with just the mighty!
Whatever reason you did wrong is the wrong reason.

Friday, March 02, 2012

When you do not understand the purpose of your life you become self-destructive.
If you are doing “your own thing” you are not doing “God’s thing”!
God designed you to be you not to be an imitation of others.
No two Christians are alike nor should they be
Every Christian bears the individual mark of God’s design for their life.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Sinners live for the fun of it; while Christians live for the joy of it!
Whatever good you do was planned for you to do from the foundation of the earth.
As a Christian you can only fail by trying to do God’s will your way.
A Christian can be content but a sinner can never be contented.
Living without purpose is worthless.