Some unhappy people are afraid of trying to be happy.
Joy is seeing what God sees.
Hope lingers even in the hearts of the severely unhappy.
Happiness means I choose to be happy where I am and with what I have; often unhappiness mean I refuse to be happy until I have what I want.
Love is the basis of good memories and then you must allow those good memories drown out the bad ones.
Where you are today is because of the choices you have made; where you go from here will be a result of the choices you will make.
Never tolerate what you are unwilling to forgive.
What you are unwilling to forgive becomes intolerable.
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.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Live life with a tender heart and hardened resolve!
Life can only be planned so far but must be lived as it comes.
Truth is the rudder of life.
A full life without love is a misnomer.
Whenever you lose sight of truth your life drifts away becoming more and more inconsequential.
A meaningful life will always involve others…a valuable life will always involve God.
Monday, July 29, 2013
An expert is the person who is the best guesser.
A good natured person is better that a good looking person for the long run.
Listening is the doorway to success that is the most missed.
A revolutionary idea is one that you hadn’t thought of yet.
Love is never wasted nor is kindness ever gone unnoticed for long.
Love contains kindness but it is only one element of its complexity.
Ideas are organized thought directed for a purpose.
God’s love for you is greater than your love for sin.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Never be confused love does not come for passion...real passion comes from love.
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself.
Our legal system is built on speculation the best speculator wins...facts are too often sacrificed in the process.
It is often easier to know who is guilty than to prove who is guilty... But no one escapes the final judgment that is on its way.
Christianity brings in no wages only sin does...Christianity brings adoption.
It is had to be humble when you are perfect but since no one is perfect, humility should abound!
Kindness is not about helping someone "get by" it is about being more than just helpful, it is about being meaningful useful to someone.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The cry of the world is “Give then Hell” the cry of a Christian is “Give them God”
Peace is not the lack of outward conflict but it is a cease fire within.
Tranquility comes when that cease fire within becomes a welcome surrender.
Guilt provides no peace, only forgiveness can bring peace.
Life struggles do not have to result in heart struggles.
Your life may be surrounded with happiness but to possess it, you have to choose to make happiness your friend.
Monday, July 15, 2013
When others run your life you are never happy with your life.
Allowing others to steal your time cost your family a greater price than they should have to pay.
Be careful how you use other peoples time; their lives are just as important as yours.
Time, talent, and God’s Word are all we have on this earth so manage them with purpose and use them with wise joy.
Allowing other to use up your time in life is just as bad as ignoring them.
If you truly value others, value their time as well.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Until I willingly obedient to God there is no worship.
Worship is opening my soul to God’s love and opening my life to His care.
Worshiping is a process of me acknowledging that, only God, is worthy of this kind of respect, honor, praise, and love.
Worship is what or to whom I give my full attention and affections.
Worship is the ultimate form of envy.
When you are possessed by the need to worship you are worshipping.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Sin is unkind in every way possible.
The wages of sin not only come to you but to those around you who you claim to love.
Failure is not sin doing wrong is.
Forgiven sin will never be remembered in eternity; even if it is here on earth.
The possibilities of a forgiven sinner are endless.
God loves the sinner but hates the sin, forgives the repentant sinner but not sin.
Sin may become legal but it never becomes right.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Never confuse love and like, like is appreciation, love is commitment.
A good marriage contains like, love, and commitment.
True love is soul binding.
Life has a beginning and end; love only has a beginning.
Today will be as much of a blessing as you allow it to become, God only has rich blessings for you.
Only a fool can be confused about if there is a God or not….at least that is what God said.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The best hope we have is the Hope yet to come.
Forgiving brings hope to the heart of the forgiver.
The pain you feel in forgiving someone who has harmed you or one you love, gives you insight into how God must feel as he forgives you through His Son.
Whatever or whomever you are unwilling to forgive becomes a millstone around your hopes and dreams.
An unforgiving heart loses its ability to love and be loved.
Hope sees through the darkest night.
Cruelty strangles those it tries to love.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Many people are good with believing in God but not so much on repentance and changing their lives.
Changing your mind is easier than changing your ways.
Change is the enemy of progress.
What I cannot easily change must be either a disease or a genetic disposition.
Your will causes more change than your hopes!
Until diet and exercise come in a pill, people will mostly remain the same size.
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Life
Even Christians must struggle in this world but their struggles are accompanied with the deep and precious knowledge that they are Divinely Loved.
In marriage one finds that a “shared life” has a life of its own.
The middle class is passing away each generation finds it more difficult to be average.
Greed is the ultimate cause of the demise of the middle class. The middle class, society, and bottom line businesses have created a terminal brew of greed.
It is more difficult to be right than to think you are right.
No one seems to ever be satisfied with what they have, compared to what someone else has, or what they could have.
One can be broke without being broken.
Monday, July 08, 2013
Value and Accomplishment
Wanting and wishing accomplish little; it is diligence and hard work that brings success.
The less you do for God, in your life, the less valuable your life becomes.
Your value for God, in life, begins at salvation and the good you do for Him will last until the end of time.
The values of a life given to Jesus grow exponentially.
It is not what you understand about the Kingdom of God that matters, in the end, it is what you do for it and with it; that will.
A friend is usually a friend because you were a friend.
Good ideas and good people can change the world you live in; Jesus came to change the world you will live in.
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Unbelief
The secret of keeping a secret is not telling anyone.
Choose the stones you throw at another carefully; they will be coming back to you some day in some way.
Sin is a result of a sick mind and a troubled soul that only Jesus can calm and heal.
The unbeliever is a believer but just not in God.
There is no freedom in unbelief.
Unbelief is a form of self-deception, self-manipulation, and self-destruction.
Saturday, July 06, 2013
GRACE
Grace provides the difference between knowing right and doing right.
Grace brings a foundation of hope, walls of Faith and a roof of security to any troubled soul, willing to seek God.
Grace is the power to do what you could never do without it.
Grace is the difference selfish pride and Godly pride.
It is Grace that provides peace in the midst of sadness.
Without Grace everyone is a failure.
Grace makes the impossible possible and possible likely.
Friday, July 05, 2013
Friendship
A good friend will lead you from your pain into your possibilities.
A good friend does not confuse your problems with your potentials.
A good friend tells you the truth in a way that you can understand but tries not to hurt you in the process.
A good friend will guide you from your fantasies into reality.
A good friend wipes your tears and challenges you at the same time.
Good friends are hard to find and hard to get rid of.
A good friend usually is one before he gets one
Thursday, July 04, 2013
Let Freedom Ring
The blood of a few gave birth to the freedom of many.
American gave your body freedom but only Jesus can give your heart freedom.
The most costly part of freedom is its diligent maintenance.
Whenever someone is free someone always wants to take it away from them.
The knowledge of freedom overcomes the price paid for it, but only slightly lessens the pain received.
No one is ever truly free without Jesus…No! Never!
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Your value
Comprehending your significance to God is the foundation for seeing your value in life.
It is not you importance in life that matters, it is your value.
Sacrificial love is the purest form of love.
Forgetting yourself is the best way of finding yourself.
Power tends to corrupt your morals and endangers the morals of those whom you have power over.
Hard decisions often require internal sweat and prayers and then external action.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
FAITH AND DOUBT
Selfishness
Some people’s sole goal is to get something for nothing…even if they are not always aware of it.
It only takes a crowd and a few free gifts to realize how selfish people are and you can be.
Sometimes knowing what is right doesn’t make doing what is right easier.
Character is not made up of what you take from another but more likely what you give to another.
Measure your selfishness by how you feel when you lose and someone else wins.
Self-centered means off center!
In marriage, a commitment to someone else’s happiness usually leads to your own.
Selfishness
Some people’s sole goal is to get something for nothing…even if they are not always aware of it.
It only takes a crowd and a few free gifts to realize how selfish people are and you can be.
Sometimes knowing what is right doesn’t make doing what is right easier.
Character is not made up of what you take from another but more likely what you give to another.
Measure your selfishness by how you feel when you lose and someone else wins.
Self-centered means off center!
In marriage, a commitment to someone else’s happiness usually leads to your own.
Monday, July 01, 2013
Confussion
If you know all about marriage you probably aren’t.
Children raise parents as much as parents raise children.
Love concedes failure but refuses to leave it at that.
Fortitude is the ability to work when you have run out of sweat.
Imagination sees the impossible as likely; vision sets out to do it.
A gift that cost you nothing is only a transfer.