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.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Faith embraces its pursuit while resisting its critics
Expectation is a Faith issue. Fear has no hope, so hope ignores fear. Caution is not fear but fear can be disguised as caution.
Just so you will remember; it is from the ashes of your fears that your faith. grows the best.
Torrid Faith blazes in darkness, shines in the light , warms the souls around it, and creates ashes out of fear
Little is done without failure. Failure is a way of moving in the right direction…now I know what I should not do and press on with knowledge gained.
Don't worry too much about old age; it doesn't last all that long.
 Failure is not a stopping point it is a change point.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Living without Grace is like swimming in the bow of the Titanic.
Jesus is the treasure your heart is searching for.
Most of us have far more information than we have willingness.
Always be positive, even when you are surrounded by negative. Someone must shine even in the darkest of darkness...Let it be you!
Grace cannot be bought, sold, bargained for in any way, nothing you can do can earn you a drop of Grace. It is a Gift take it or leave it.
If Jesus is your rock; don't sweat being on "Rock bottom"...
Go straight to mercy; it is the power of recovery, the hope of growth, and the fruit of the future.
Finding your first love is special; finding your last but "lasting" love is beyond wonderful.
A closed mind only sees what is inside it...and no more.

The optimist plan on what could go right; the pessimist plan on what could go wrong.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015


“The Joy of the Lord” is living every moment like it will never be here again...(which it won't but He will...:)
Indecision is a decision...
Prayer will help you chose what is right. Grace helps you do what is right.
You were designed to be a carrier of Faith. So "faith-up", live by it, with it, and in it.
Expectations are designated hopes; but Faith is hope without limitations.
Grace in an "undeserved necessity" of life...freely given to those who believe.
Grace carries what Faith cannot understand, love that your heart cannot comprehend, and knowledge that you mind cannot explain.



Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Healing occurs when your pain, loss, misunderstanding, rejection, or hurt no longer control your thinking and therefore your life.
His promises are greater than your problems, no matter how huge your problems may appear to be.

Love is the only ingredient that can dissolve bitterness.
There is not great shame than to not to love someone you should; nor no greater sin than to not love someone you could.
Remember, whatever is out of your control is never out of His control.
God has no need of you but to love Him; but if you love Him your need for Him multiplies exponentially.
While God does not need anything you have to offer; He will use everything you have to offer for Kingdom work, if you allow him.
Without God in your life now, there is no possibility of a Utopia at the end of your life.
Everything the world has to offer you is worth far les than anything God can give you.
Without God we are like "hazardous waste", useless, until He puts us together right.
I was planning on procrastinating today but I will have to put that off until tomorrow.
It seems like, whenever I think I have everything figured out; it just doesn't sum up.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

The only ways to love someone more than they deserve on a regular basis is to love God more than you love them.
If you fail to give yourself to God you will always be out of control in some way or another.
A half of grain of faith in a God who can, is more valuable. than a ton of unfulfilled promise from a world that can’t.
The lesson is in the learning more than in its teaching.
Pretending is the world’s way of trying to change itself.

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Goals are what you want do; Character is who you are while reaching for those goals.
The more you give the more you will have to give.
Being foolish magnifies your fears and all of your fears are foolishness; if you are  Christian.
The happiest people are those who make happiness out of what they have; not waiting for what they want.
A conclusion is a decision you make about what you know, and before you consider  what you should have known.
Try looking at the simplest flower and convince yourself that somehow it just happened....

Sunday, April 05, 2015

You do not have to become a better person to be a Christian; it is Grace that will make you a better person after you become a Christian.
It is important to be remembered for who you were not, instead of who you were. Who you are will always be more important that who you were.
Love is when your dreams are pale compared to your reality.
Love is the beginning of a never ending friendship filled with a passion for each other's well being.
Easter means a Christian's love for others can to exceed all their expectations.

Easter is a heart experience, then a head experience, not visa versa.
Jesus rose so you would not have to keep falling.
Disobedience started all of this and obedience will end it for you.
Sin is not a weakness; it is a choice.
Disobedience of Adam and Eve began the fall in to sin the only Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection could end.

Friday, April 03, 2015

The crucifixion was the price of your adoption; Easter was the power that made it possible.
Easter is all about more love for you than you can comprehend or ever deserve.
Easter is the birth of Christianity without the resurrection there would be no Christianity.
Good Fridays was when Jesus received the ”sour wine” that you might have a “sweetness” in your life that no man can take away.
Only a Christian can call Good Friday “Good” because he knows the resurrection (Easter) is coming.
The crucifixion brought despair and the resurrection brought everlasting hope.
The wrath of the crucifixion declared null and void when the tomb was found to be empty. 
The victory of the crucifixion declared a failure when the resurrection occurred on Easter morning.
The ransom paid on Calvary could not be paid in any other way, by any other person. No one but Jesus use could raise Himself from the grave.


Wednesday, April 01, 2015

The reward for the good deeds that I should have done yesterday, bring a considerably less reward, if I finally do it today.
Great vision helps you see character; great love helps you mold character.
I got my DNA test results came back Easter...I am 100% Christian...
I got my DNA test results came back,....As a Christian I am 100% forgiven...
I got my DNA test results came back ...I am 100% Loved...
I got my DNA test results came back...I am 100% "God made"...
I got my DNA test results came back...I am 100% human.
You have to be odd to be yourself.
The Crucifixion without the Resurrection is just a conversation; but the Crucifixion with the Resurrection; becomes Salvation.