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

My Photo
Name:
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.

Friday, August 31, 2012


Just because someone understands why you did something doesn’t make it right.
Just because I can explain why I did something doesn’t make it right.
Whenever I have done what God says to do then I have done right.
Being nice when wrong or mean, or when right, often brings similar results.
Love is the only way to do right but there are a myried ways of doing wrong.

Thursday, August 30, 2012


Insight is a combination of willingness and the perseverance to see truth.
Good is more than the lack of doing bad; good is the direction your life will reveal!
The mountain of doubt is built on a lie. So when you remove the lie, the mountain disappears.
May the streams of precious faith flow through the desserts of your life today and every day!
Failure is often the foundation of success.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012


Whatever part of your life uncommitted to Jesus is spreading darkness among those you love.
Christian you need to realize that God is closer to you than you are to Him.
God hurt for your heart.
A church too comfortable with itself is usually too uncomfortable for sinners.
For the most part, discouragement, is a self-inflicted wound.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012


Never allow your Christianity to be define by a denominations only by your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus gave us salvation, the Church, and unity; man gave us denominations, rules, and division.
The good thing about denominations is that they can pool resources to spread the gospel.
The bad thing about denominations is that they spend more time telling who they are instead of who Jesus is.
Denominations tend to care more for their people and provide better for their needs.
Denominations are only as good as they reflect Jesus and as bad as they fail to fervently love every other born again Christian as a brother, or sister in the Lord.

Monday, August 27, 2012

The reward for organized people is that they get more done, so their bosses give them more to do.
The trouble with organized people is that they are too lazy to look for things.
Management is the skill of getting people to want to do, what they don’t want to do!
Leaders imagine the impossible, manages figure out how to make it, and the worker build it.
Whatever you have done out of love never returns void.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

This is the plan, children are a gift to the world, to be molded by parents, who are molded by God.

Without children a church will perish.
Children are a constant reminder of what faith, loyalty and happiness are all about!
The smile of a child can remove the sadness of a parent.
Every child holds the hearts of their parents in their sticky, grubby, hands.
It is hard for a child to get beyond the prayers of godly parents.

Friday, August 24, 2012


You can be good without being Godly, but you miss the reason for being good!
Faith is more about who is leading than where you are going.
Being a Christian requires a changed heart; no changed heart no Christianity.
Jesus came to redeem the lost and to make the redeemed into fisherman.
Leaders chart the course, managers build the boat, and workers do the rowing.

Thursday, August 23, 2012


A hunger for lost souls is natural for a Christian.
A local church without local sinners in the congregation has failed.
A local church without new folks tends to become more critical of those who are there.
Your Christian life is the bait God uses when He is fishing for lost that you influence.
If your life does not reflect Christ, you can call yourself a Christian, but you cannot be one!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012


Naturally you cannot serve God but God still put a hunger in your heart for Him.
When you become a Christian serving God becomes natural.
A church filled with peace needs some sinners.
God’s Grace is dangerous to some sinners…they think they can still “sin and get away with it”.
Even forgiven sin bears consequences to someone.
Are a freighting to Satan or frightened of Satan?

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Love may be celebrated with flowers and trinkets but it is measured by commitment.
Love gives more than it receives but always has more than it gives.
Pursuing the Love of Jesus is the treasure of the Gospel.
Love is pregnant with happiness.
If you will not love, you cannot be happy, sadness will prevail in all that you do.

Monday, August 20, 2012

To someone who thinks you are special, doing something special, is not a requirement but it is a blessing given.
Never confuse popularity with value.
Competition may allow you to do something better that someone else but it never makes you better than them.
Remedies are unnecessary if you avoid the malady.
The reason love is forgiving is that it is love.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Most of the time, to get the most for the least, you have to give more than you want.
If you are not spreading the Gospel you are missing the reason for your salvation.
What I have done I cannot undo but I do the right thing the next time.
God’s will is better than your ideas.
When you learn to focus on doing right you will automatically do less wrong!

Friday, August 17, 2012

The most disturbing disturbances come from your heart.
Creature comforts can lead to financial discomforts.
To be a success at one thing means you will likely fail at another.
Finding balance in your life is the most successful discovery.
Success is more of a lifestyle than an achievement.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Gifts and talents need discipline to become useful and valuable to those about you.
Christians do not hope they are forgiven…they know they are!
A Christian’s minimal ministry is to reveal the rich Love of God in their lives, everyday, in every way.
Open your mind to good but close it tightly to evil!
Sinners die; Christians are protected in their journey thorough the valley of death.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Perfection is not for humans but it is the right direction.
Rejoicing is an act of faith as well as a celebration.
It is more important to ”lift up Jesus” than to put down Satan.
Sin cannot be explained in a new way, that changes its source or the consequences.
You cannot be a faithful person without God because faithfulness requires wisdom, correction and love.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Moral failure is a combination of weakness, temptation and willingness.
Don’t fax your prayers, pray them.
The minimal missionary testifies to his family and neighbors.
Every blessing I receive exceeds my understanding.
You cannot be a faithful missionary Christian without love.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

It is a lot easier to tell the truth than it is to explain a lie.
Love will comfort you or hate will trouble you everyday of you life.
Discipline makes your talents useful.
You owe more than you are worth, no matter how much you have.
Only Jesus can change your worth into value.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Being born is not a choice; being “born again” is.
Every sin adds a burden to your life.
The birth of Jesus was a gift of Grace, the death of Jesus was payment for your sins, the resurrection of Jesus was for your salvation.
The purpose of a Christian is to be a missionary where ever they are.
Sinners die; Christians are promoted!

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Whatever you own leads you; whatever you give frees you.
You are the only one who can enjoy the blessing you have been given, and you are the only one who can choose to ignore them.
All sin is a sign of your weakness; never your strength.
Joy is a mixture of faith, hope and love.
Your nature is not to love truth, only a new nature in Christ Jesus can bring that joy to your heart.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012


The value of your life increases by what you are doing, more than what you have done.
If you must tell someone you're "the leader" you probably aren’t.
A lazy Christian is an oxymoron.
A “comfortable church” is more self-centered than Christ-centered.
Hope is the fuel of the optimist; doubt is the fuel of the pessimist

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

The Bible tells Christains to “pray without ceasing” but most folks have just ceased praying.
Jesus hurt for your heart!
God gave you His word in His Word...the Bible check it out.
It is not God’s will to do your will but it is God’s will for you to do His Will!
Sadly, to many Christians go to church just for themselves and not to be salt and light for others.

Monday, August 06, 2012


Doubt brings failure to new level.
You can be successful and still be dead wrong.
You can be successful without being truthful but you cannot be truthful without being successful.
Success is doing the Will of God in your life…period.
A “comfortable church” is one that keeps out the folks who most need to be there.

Sunday, August 05, 2012


A friend is someone who knows your worst but believes in your best.
A friend is someone who cares enough to confront your weaknesses, yet loves you enough to be there for you when you fail.
Sin stains your soul in such a way the only Jesus can wash it away.
Enemies are an opportunity for you to introduce God’s power in your life to them.
Lying is an easy tragedy.

Friday, August 03, 2012


The Bible is His Word and should be your word on every subject.
God is always closer to you than you are to Him.
Don’t let your habits become your only habitat.
Jesus paid a high price to give His treasures to you.
Good sense is better than just being conservative.

Thursday, August 02, 2012


The price of doing right far exceeds the cost of doing wrong.
Caution...the world is about to be taken over by the children who were sent to their room.
Forgiving others was not a choice; it was a commandment.
If you are “genuinely concerned” you will become involved in the solution.
A comfortable church is usually more self-centered than Christ centered.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Holiness is accepting God’s choices every time you recognize them.
Sin always separates you from God in some way and lessening your view of His will.
You will have less than you want unless you give God all that you have.
Envy steals your opportunities to succeed.
If you do good, you will, if you don’t, you won’t.