Easter the
tomb is empty so your heart can be full.
Easter is what makes
Christianity different from all other religions...it is the only one headed by a
resurrected Lord.
Evil fears not Mohamed, Buddha or
Confusions, but a living Jesus, now that shakes Satan to the core.
For
the early Christians, it took less faith and more courage to serve
Jesus.
Easter morning believers seemed more concerned
that Jesus’ body had been stolen that excited that He had risen.
Too
often the church of today are more concerned that someone left the church; than
excited that some one new wants to come.
Without Easter
morning’s resurrection, the Cross, would have been just another sad
story.
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
About Me
- Name: A Smoky Mountain Hi
- 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.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
It is amazing to comprehend that
God’s love endured the death of His own Son….for me…for you...for all
mankind…that is some serious Love.
Sad Saturday must have
been a hard time to be a believer.
What profound loneliness the
decuples must have felt, those many year ago, while Jesus was still in the
tomb.
It is one thing to believe that Jesus would rise
from the dead but quite another to expect Him to!
It is hard today for
believers to expect what they believe.
Do you believe
that God will answer your prayers or do you expect Him
to?
Friday, March 29, 2013
Forgiveness
heals the forgiver more than the forgiven.
Love continues to love
because it need to do so to survive.
Peace is not a
health issue but an issue of the soul.
All men die, some while their
hearts is still beating.
Lies complicate the progress of
truth, but never stop truth.
Forgiveness is something you can only
give before you die.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Live so you know why…don’t just let life pass you by. Skills, are “talent possibilities“, covered in sweat. Being too careful allows you to escape the scars of victory. Compassion is completed, when you have hated, is the one you now love. Christian compassion is a gift of love to those who do not deserve, are not expecting it, or just need it. While love is the mother of compassion, compassion also gives birth to love. Giving is a key ingredient to living. |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
I always thought I was better that I was, but without
Grace, I could not prove it.
He said he was busy living between
the lines, of what he is, and what others thought he was.
Truth destroys lies but lies mock the truth.
If, what is
OK with man, is not Ok with God, then it is just not OK…anyway you say it, dress
it up, or legalize it.
Failure to do right is a double
failure; you knew it was right and still did not do it…which is bad
wrong.
Fellowship is love circulating.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Love blends lives into one;
bitterness coagulates and separates lives.
Ideas are the
seed of inspiration, which bring a crop of inventions.
Never turn your
back on those you love to gain things, money or praises; it is far too costly of
an exchange.
Complicating your life with simplicity
brings peace and comfort to your soul.
Progress that cost you your
freedom is a bargain with the Devil.
Becoming old is far
less of a handicap than remaining stupid.
Change is enviable, good
changes are often troublesome to find.
Monday, March 25, 2013
This moment of
your life is unredeemable…use it wisely and make it memorable.
The
inertia of joy exceed the inertia of sandiness.
Joy can
relieve your sadness or sadness will destroy your joy the choice is pretty much
yours to decide.
Love gives more than it takes, build more than it
terns down, praise more than it criticizes, and is unimaginably
special.
A wrinkle of hope bring a crack of a
smile.
The better you pray; the better your day.
If you are thoroughly in love you’re never truly together until
you are married.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Love only seems extreme to those
who have not been in love.
Love bypasses the difficult
and head straight for the good in the one loved.
Being in love gives
you courage that otherwise would go und used.
The weight
one must bear by refusing to love is far greater than the risk of
loving.
A kiss says to the loved one what words cannot
express.
Love pays not rent for the room in your
heart.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Love enjoys more that it
endures.
Eyes can never behold the beauty the heart sees
clearly.
Love has a flavor of its own that cannot be tasted by
any other.
True love goes far beyond,” I need you”,
and into thankfulness for the privilege of loving you.
Love pleases everyone…hate pleases no
one.
A kiss is when the conversation stops
being heard and is now felt.
Wisdom can only be understood through a heart that
comprehends love.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
There is precious little done
without precious little Faith.
Precious little Faith can
do what grand and great egos have not even consider could be done.
A
Christian has what he has because of the generosity of God and has not because
he asked not by Faith.
You can lead by authority or lead
by example…guess witch works the best.
The desire to be wise is a gift
beyond wisdom.
Wisdom is more often observed and
distilled than discovered instantaneously.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Love feels the
hurt, shares the pain, and does all that it can while you are
lame.
Wise is he who see the snake before he steps on it.
Welcome hope, feed your faith, and posses all that you can of
God.
To hate the actions of a man is easy to define, but to truly hate
a man, requires you know him well enough to love him.
Walking a mile in another man’s shoes will teach you little; only
walking a mile carrying another man’s heart will teach you who he
is.
Your mind remembers your hurts more than your
pain.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Luck works best when watered by
sweat.
Opportunities dogs the
diligent.
Perseverance is often the best preparation.
Tenacity puts talent’s "best foot forward".
Love is the
energy to do what needs to be done for those you need to do for.
Scraping by is still getting by…so celebrate!
The reason
you cannot find yourself is because you must first build
yourself.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Boundaries, allow you the freedom to live witin them,
while limiting the distractions to your progress. Marriage, Christianity, love, truth, loyalty, commitments all come with self-limiting boundaries for the betterment of those involved. Without bounders you are free to be irresponsible. Bounders are successes best friend. In our society, either you set boundaries, or others will set them for you. |
Saturday, March 16, 2013
The strength of your hope is
measure by your perseverance.
The job of a Christian is
to everyday, push back “the gates of evil” in there lives and the lives about
them.
Leadership is finding out how others can meet their needs in
your vision.
Leadership is inspiring others to work as
diligently as they would if they were the leader.
Marriage is a
determination to love each other that cannot be detoured.
The biggest failure in
life is not to accept God’s guidance.
Friday, March 15, 2013
The price of
forgiveness is tiny compared to the cost of not forgiving.
In the end
you are your own judge, what you will not forgive others, will not be forgiven
for you.
Everyday you will not forgive, the burden you
must bear, grows heaver and heaver, for you and for those you
love.
Forgiveness frees you, not the offender.
Forgiveness surrenders your right to be angry while freeing your
right to be happy.
No one who refuses to forgive is ever free of
bitterness.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
It is not how far I
have come that will mater in the end; it will be what direction I am headed that
will count.
It will not be how much money I made that
will matter in the end; it will be what did I do with what I had, that will
count.
As a musician, it will matter less who I played for, than whom
I did not take the time to play for, that will count.
It
will be the attitude I carry rather than the eloquence I have, that in the end,
will count.
Counting my blessings will matter less than counting the
blessing I have left behind, that will count in the end.
In the end all that will count is if I am a
Christian and secondly, what did I do with my Christianity, is all that will
ever matter.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Faith is
Wisdom from the soul.
As a Christian, loneliness is not a fact but a
“feeling” you have to choose because it is impossible for you to be
alone.
As a Christian, your soul always sleeps on a
“Select Comfort Mattress"; you choose because God has already choosen
you.
Impossible, has nothing to do with Faith.
When you give up; you are really giving in!
You cannot
loose a fight you have fought for right.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wealth often hinders your chances
of doing right.
Money is not an end in itself but gives
you an opportunity to end right.
Doing what I can is less worthy than
doing what I should.
It is better to be disappointing
than to have done nothing.
I can fix failure; I cannot fix
laziness.
Warm your thoughts with love not
money.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Giving means living.
Praying means loving.
Loving means sharing.
Caring means
doing.
Judging
turns off loving.
Hatred turns off living.
Unforgiving turns off
caring.
Bitterness turns off
everyone.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Fortitude is attitude of
work.
The constitution limited the right of the
government to be wrong.
It is easier to forgive than forget.
If memory serves me right I only remember the things I think
about.
Life’s little tragedies prepare us for the greatest tragedy of
missing Heaven or prepare us for our greatest joy of arriving in
Heaven.
An ounce of wisdom acted on is worth a ton of
unused knowledge.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Stress is
friend to unkindness.
I can fix failure; I cannot fix
laziness.
Until I have lost much I
understand little the need for compassion.
Love circumvents the
obstacles hindering it.Marriage is when
two people accept the responsible for one love.
What I do not learn in
school will be taught me by much harsher masters.
Friday, March 08, 2013
Most of the time praise comes to
you from those who are subject to you...it is the praises from those you love that mean most!
Demand of yourself
more than you want from others.
Wisdom comes from doing what you know
is right.
Procrastination is the drug of
failure.
The lazy do as little as they can, to get less than they
want.
Change is easier to predict than to
adopt.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Everyday is an
opportunity to be better that I was the day before.
Committed love
seeks no uncommitted love.
For better or worse I am
responsible for what I do, what I have done, and what I will do.
The
lack of patience has cost me many a victory, and far too many friends.
Hope changes my attitude, perseverance changes my prospects, and
Faith changes my destination.
Balance is the best thing you can give
your employer, your employee, or your family.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
True love lives with its inside out.
A Christian bears the stamp of the
image of hope.
What love will not bear cannot be
born.
The majesty of Faith is celebrated in the
soul of the believer.
Be warier of anyone who tries to delude your
faith.
What society says is acceptable does
change the Bible.
Love enriches the soil in the lives that it touches, do
we, are we, will we?
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Love is the reason to do right.
Prayer is vision to do right
Perseverance is the determination to do right.
Generosity gives you the means to do right.
Stubbornness keeps you from changing to do right.
Selfishness keeps you from seeing right.
Greed causes you to take away from what is right.
Salvation cause you to exchange wrong for right.
Monday, March 04, 2013
Hope is a hardship to an
atheist.
Surround yourself with those who can speak the
truth to you in love.
It is hard to be kind, when you only love
yourself, or when you hate yourself.
When you think that
someone owes you, they are no longer your friend.
Words bear
consequences beyond their meaning.
Forgiveness is
sandpaper to those who hate.
Your actions to those you should love,
carry a volume that is heard without listening.
Carol and I are
safely back in our Tennessee cabin...Loving it here!
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Anyone can
do “good works” but a Christian must.
Going to church is a good habit
but a better privilege.
One of the keys to a successful
life is when your stupidity argues with your reason don’t
listen.
Government does best when it does what is should instead of
what it wants.
Trouble can be generated in two ways; by
doing wrong or by doing what is right.
Honor is respect being
given.
Hope strangles
doubt.
If you have no regrets you like did
nothing.
Friday, March 01, 2013
In happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek
God
Quiet moments, worship God
Painful moments,
trust God
Every moment, thank God.
Janis Davis...Saudia Arabia
Failures, without wisdom, are
doomed to return.
Wisdom requires changes you are not
always willing to make.
Wisdom is often the knowledge, learned from
bad experiences, blended with the hopes of good faith.
Wisdom can be measured by how often you have to learn the same
lesson.
A wise man cannot help but seek God, but a fool can only see
god only in his own mirror.
Wise is the
man who finds the treasures God has placed within him.
Wisdom is a talent of Faith.