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, May 31, 2012

Whatever I believe whole heartedly should never be half-baked.
Businesses are people with or without heart....Do business with ones with a heart!
“Doing business as usual” is only as good if you are fair.
When you think your prosperity in the pocket of another, you view people differently.
Gently are the breezes of hope even when, strong are the winds of despair.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wealth is a terrifying gift of God with such potential for good or evil for others and in the receiver.
Wealth corrupts itself, and then the powerful.
Wealthy people feel they do not need God, but know they do.
Wealth paralyses the heart and then the soul.

Money never makes anyone better than another.
Mark your territory with compassion
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Love gives more than asked and receives more than is given.
Love is realizing that without the person loved your life will be very lonely.
Love is elevating of two lives to one purpose.

Without love there is no foundation for anything.
 Love is a decision that the companionship of someone special, exceeds any sacrifice you make to share it.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Today is our 49th year of a happy marriage on our way to forever together.
It is better to love too much than too little.
The average man has less than average influence, in court.
Policemen have a tendency to become judges... sometimes good and somrtimes bad.

Government agencies tend to corrupt themselves from the middle down.
The feeling of power is corrupting.
Banks are institutions that send you the bill for their failures.

Good is the presences of right not just absence of wrong.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Every leader must know his direction.
Failure on the way to success is an inconvenience rather than a stumbling block.
The law is rarely just when money is involved.

The letter of the law is the enemy of justice.
Laws are structured to support the powerful.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Choices are weighed options.
Beauty grows in the heart of the beholder.
Grace holds the opposing forces at bay.
Doing well rewards your soul. Manners only matter when you use them.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Comforting someone will probably cause you some discomfort.
Change what you can; ignore what you can’t.
Progress has more to do with understanding than it has to do with direction.

Having a second thought might be an improvement on the first one.
Every thought is a plagiarism of God.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

In order to succeed, one must not avoid failure but learn from it.
Chance has little to do with life and nothing to do with faith.
A casino is a place where you throw away what you have earned.
“Hitting the jackpot" is finding someone who truly loves you.
Gambling is a excellent way to build self-doubt.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Trying is moving towards success.
Prayer is a process of listening with a willing ear.
What I ask God for is the least valuable part of a prayer.
Prayer is an intimate conversation with God.
What I want in prayer is not nearly as important than what God wants to give me.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A good salesman tries to find a person’s wants, at a price they can afford to pay.
Selfishness is a disease of want.
The more effort I put forth, the less it seems like work.
Paying less than I want usually means I did not get what I want.
Direction is determined by your purpose.

Monday, May 21, 2012

When it feels right to do wrong, your feelings have become diseased.
Never forget hope, even for the impossible.
Sacrificing is accepting discomfort for the good of another.

Being "Righteous" is usually not convenient.
Often to do what I want to do, means I am doing what someone else doesn’t want me to do.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

You can be correct without being right.
The spirit of truth must also embody truth.
Tolerance must never become acceptance.
Immorality is neither tolerable nor acceptable.
Society is willing to be more tolerable than Christians, because society lives by feelings rather than principles.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law become the blessing they choose to be.
Grandchildren are far more than just grand!
Character is a mixture of sweat, change, and purposefulness!
 Measure others with a flexible stick.
What you do for others is a translation of what you believe about your faith.

Friday, May 18, 2012

A marriage with imagination grows until death do they part.
A kind marriage is the right kind of marriage.
Children are a gift that can keep on giving.
For love, miles apart is no distance at all.
The more you love your husband/wife the freer you become.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Flatteries are lies with smiles.
God made you good enough to do enough.
Forgiveness is setting hope free.
Without God there is no security!
A true gift is wrapped in a heart.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Dreams are faith promises to your future.
Prayer prolongs living.
Faith expects to be right when it really matters.
Extracting the good to create better is the occupation of leadership.
Management is finding the right qualities to succeed in the right person.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

God defines success men define accomplishments.
Make liars out of your critics by what you do next.
Going against the grain may be the right direction.
Hope excessively and pray incessantly.
You can only truly do your best when you are doing it for God.

Monday, May 14, 2012

God’s insight, beats your hind’s sight!
Jesus paid a debt that He had not accumulated.
The “second mile” is often the most difficult, meaningful, and rewarding mile.
The capitol of your life is what you have invested in others for the Kingdom of God.
Love others more than you ought and you will be loved more than you would have been.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mothers give life to life.
Mother work harder, give more, receive less, are underappreciate but most loved and universally praised.
Often mother need to teach fathers to parent while they are learning themselves.
Usually, a mother’s love is salve enough.
A wife understands that a happy husband makes the best father.
A Husband understands that a wife secure in his love brings abundance benefits to their children.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Your Christian walk is a window into your church.
Mothers are there before one's awareness of God either tainting or revealing God's Great Love.
If Jesus is not in your heart where is He?
To know about Jesus and to have Jesus are in your heart are not equal.
Lip service or life service which shall it be?
“The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” fear here means you aware that God is always right…yes...always!

Friday, May 11, 2012

The world need not one more bad example.
The sad news is that the Church is becoming like the world instead of the world becoming like the Church.
The church is becoming the enemy of The Church.
Real Christians, in any church, are easy to find and hard to forget.
Is the worship in your church traditional or affective?… or A Blended Both?

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mediocrity is a mockery of the Cross.
Joy will overtake a Christian ready or not!
Regrets are the aches of failures, healed only by forgiving yourself.
God can get along without you but cannot with Him!
If you are a blessing blocker, unplug the possibilities for yourself and others.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

The empty tomb opened the door for Christians to have an abundant life.
Jesus suffered on the cross that you might life in fervent joy!
Sin may bring some gratification but it never brings joy.
Jesus did not die on the cross so you could just “get by“.
Faith is God’s gift of love to you, your compassion for others is your gift to Him.

Monday, May 07, 2012


Christmas without Easter would be meaningless.
The cross without the resurrection would be useless.
Easter props open the door for the lost, the least, the last and the lonely.
Grace was paid for on the Cross but was made available by the resurrection.
Without the resurrection the Cross would have been a very sad story.

Sunday, May 06, 2012

Heaven does not require your acceptance in order to exist.
Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection make Heaven or Hell fair.
Prayer is the ultimate “Happy Hour”.
When you pray are you asking for permission or direction?
Heaven is not affected by whether you believe in it or not.
"Forsake not gathering together"...Church alone in the woods just not enough.

Saturday, May 05, 2012

In respect to Jesus, are you a witness or a miss-witness?
Heaven is not for the hopeful but it is for the believers.
Only a fool thinks he can fool God!
Is you walk with Christ worth other taking notes.
Heaven is God’s gift not your salary.

Friday, May 04, 2012

A good goal is when you opportunity to do better, better is what you choose do.
A Christian belongs to God so why are you doubting?
God will always out give your tithe.
It is easy to say you are a Christian but challenging to be one!
To impoverish your hopes you must first bind your faith.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Peace is not the absence of conflict but rather the presence of God.
Real peace is not circumstantially drive but positional solid.
Mercy extends to the undesirable.
Never just do good when you could do better.
Invention is the organization of ideas in a different manner.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but rather the presence of God.
Real peace is not circumstantially drive but positional solid.
Mercy extends to the undesirable.
Never just do good when you could do better.
Invention is the organization of ideas in a different manner.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

If the end is yet to come we’d best get busy.
Regrets are the ashes of the past and a formula for failure.
The task of doing an unknown good deep rarely draws the crowds.
Jesus rose from the dead: Mohammad, Joseph Smith, Confucius, Charles Taze Russell, and all of the others are still dead. What would that teachn you?
Nourish your hopes leave your doubts to famish.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

A known kindness is easily tarnished by pride.
It is he who judges that has the most to fear.
When you have a log in your eye it is hard to see the needs of others.
Extreme faith in God is justified.
Muslims are told to kill their enemies, while Christians are told to love them; whose enemy would you want to be?

A known kindness is easily tarnished by pride.
It is he who judges that has the most to fear.
When you have a log in your eye it is hard to see the needs of others.
Extreme faith in God is justified.
Muslims are told to kill their enemies, while Christians are told to love them; whose enemy would you want to be?