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.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The Church is here for all of your issues in life, not just to be a blessing for you.
Hope means “I want better;”  Faith means “I am expecting better.”
If you just follow Jesus, you will never be lost.
If you think it is not too hard for you to get to church; you will find it will be much harder if you don’t.
You can say what you want; but what you do is what you believe.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Legalism is a pagan religion…Grace is Christianity.
Legalism is “spiritually illegal.”
Prosperity is about your lack of sin not your accumulation of things.
If you failed your family, no amount of success counts.
It is sin, not circumstances, that causes a Christian to become unhappy.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Happiness leaves its own legacy.
A rich man has his valuables locked up in a loved one’s heart.
In order to truly forgive another you must first forgive yourself.
Hope is knowing that God makes sense...and whatever God is doing now, will someday make sense.
God lacks nothing but still desperately wants you.

Friday, September 26, 2014

You were born to make a difference in someone's life! ...So. Get at it NOW.
Happiness flees the selfish.
Whenever you discover the key to happiness you realize you knew it all along.
A sinful heart disturbs its own possibilities for peace.
The fear of failure keeps happiness at bay.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Happiness is enjoying more of what you have, not in just having or getting more.
Hard work builds talent!
Every day is either filled with His Grace or is smothered with your disappointments.
Happiness is the spillover of joy.
People will not learn about Jesus from people they do not like.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Spend a day pulling the weeds out of someone's "happiness patch."
A conduit of happiness is more valuable than a container of happiness.
Every smile tickles your happiness...and/or yours will tickle someone else's!
Are you busy plotting someone else's happiness?
Cheerfulness creates its own happiness.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

You cannot change the truth with a lie.
A truth that is not delivered in love becomes part of a lie.
“In all things give thanks”… the rest you are free to pout about.
Just because things aren’t the way you think they ought to be, doesn’t mean they ought not be that way.

Doing the right thing in the wrong way, makes your right a wrong.


Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Patience is the wiliness to wait for God’s will to proceed yours.
Patience is pre-faith.
Impatience is the beginning of anger.
Faith is the cure for impatience.
Satan celebrates your impatience; so deprive him of that possibility.
Patience means you believe that God actually does all things well.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A kiss for no reason is bliss.
While I don’t believe in love at first sight, I refuse to leave her side even for  a moment, so I keep her in my heart.
Genuine love can feel your presence even, while you are no longer here.
A gift of kindness is blessing of continuous magnitude.
The most convincing lies are told by those who believe them.
You do not need permission to stand for the truth; just guts.

Friday, September 12, 2014

You can’t force love but you can vehemently defend it.
Uncertainty is the romance of commitment.
Love is an insane commitment by someone who is sane.
Until your love is returned, it cannot be a true love.
In order to be sure of what I am certain, I must continually question.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Only love can apply knowledge with wisdom with compassion..
Knowledge is a mystery, even for those who understand it.
Some comprehend a little, a few comprehend more, and none comprehend much more than more.
When someone loves you, your reputation is safe in their conversations.
It is love causes you to say your loved one’s name in a different way.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Men treat knowledge like garlic; enough is enough and too much is tactfully avoided.
The first sign of ignorance is thinking you know it all.
If it were not for Grace, my impossibilities would overwhelm me but with Grace all things are possible.
Truth survives even the failure of its application.
Knowledge is usually given before it is understood.
A Wiseman is only one question away from being foolish.

Friday, September 05, 2014

When I do not know something, either optimism or pessimism will prevail.
Your knowledge will never be as important as your kindness.
Truth is not subject to my or your opinions.
Truth honors itself and needs no approval.
Wisdom includes the ability to say, “I do not know”.

Thursday, September 04, 2014

Your  brain is constantly conjuring up questions that the ages have yet to answer. And only God knows the answers.
Every man who has thought, knows how little he knows, and when he considers whomever he is following, other than God, he knows he need to reconsider.
Christian churches do not send missionaries to tell others they are wrong but to tell them about Jesus.
Perceived knowledge becomes a barrier to learning.
Knowledge can never replace understanding.

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Truth is not  moved by love or hate, only by its declaration.
The purpose of fear is to pollute your hopes.
Grief is anger turned inward.
Faith is not just a belief but it is also an action.
Every birth asks, “Why am I here?” Every coffin asks, “Where am I going?”