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.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A good marriage is where two folks are willing looking at and celebrate the strengths of each other, more than their weakness.

Love, is the process, of putting your heart into the life of another.

It is the constant application of love that will turn a good marriage into a wonderful marriage.

A good marriage is finding someone who you are willing to do good for, be good to, and see the best in, for life.

A good marriage is not always about finding the best cook , the best provider, the best looking, but it is it about finding the will of God.

Being sorry without healing is of no value. Forgiving is the beginning of healing in yourself and/or in others.

Purpose to be a blessing to someone in someway today. Being a blessing is doing something good for someone without expecting any reward.

You cannot always change your circumstances but you can change how you react to it, and what you are doing about it.

Change is a gift of "mind sweat", "will sweat", and "effort sweat" to yourself and others you love.

True wisdom is understanding what God's doing and joining in with His plan for the you, for the day, the year, and throughout your life.

Wisdom is the purposeful walk from knowledge, to understanding, into action.

It is often the grind that polishes the diamond. But who likes the grind and who doesn't appreciate the shine?

If you are becoming weary in well doing you know you are afflicted with doubt not Grace.


True love is purposefully, and carefully, carrying someone else's heart in your heart.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Having money, whether inherited or earned, doesn't make you any better than anyone else, only behaving better than did yesterday makes you better.

Grace is the only currency in Heaven printed with the blood of Jesus, Himself.

Jesus already has provide all you need...so all you need is Jesus.

Kindness will bring you more happiness than money...and more often.

Success in business is becoming apart of a living process of continued change and development. Learning and applying what you have learned.

Few fail because of the gluttony of knowledge most fail because of the unwillingness to apply or change what they know to what the do.

God made you to be you; try as you will, to be as another, you will always fail.

Resisting good only leads to the success of evil.

Sow seeds into every life you meet, water every life that crossed your path, weed carefully the gardens of others, and pray that God will harvest even the worst of the worst you have met.

Love is both a destination and a journey, it is a resting place that demands you work your hardest.

When you care more about someone and their wellbeing, than you do about yourself, you are standing at the footsteps of love.

Friday, July 07, 2017

Sin always hurts some innocent party..and then...the sinner the most in the end.

The sinners deserves the consequences of their sins but what about those they injured by their sins?


God will never tempt you to do wrong so never be confused about that impossibility.

James, the brother of Jesus, tells us “I write these things unto you so that you sin not”! So, yes, you do have a choice.

Sin is the slave of want and the enemy of contentment.


Prayer can bring unbelievable comfort to your soul...contentment to your heart, and joy to your continence.

Whatever portion of your life that is not on fire for Jesus, will  be the beginning of darkness for those who see it.

God has a heart for your heart.

Don’t go to church to become comfortable; the more comfortable you become in church the less useful you will become!

The less connected to the Church, you are, the more critical of church and of other Christians you become!

Thursday, July 06, 2017

Being yourself is dangerous, if you are a self-made man. Until you are born-again nothing that you do will matter 10,000 years from now.

Life is far too short and far too valuable to spend it only on one's self.

Until you have failed you will never understand success.

You are your "ground zero" when you want to change the world.

When you put your trust in someone or something you know you shouldn't, you know you are lying to yourself.

Respect is something you give before you get.

Bettering yourself is the best way to better others.

If you truly want revenge on someone, love them more than they deserve.

Pastor or layman; if your ministry is making you conceited, you are probable ministering to the wrong people.

Encouragement is the key to changing, either you, or anyone else.

If you think changing others is so easy; start with trying to change yourself.

The key to eliminating abortion is not the defunding of planned parenthood but the teaching of morality and responsibility.


Wednesday, July 05, 2017

God did not make any insufficient people, nor did He make one person to be better than another.

Actually, Christian, God is still in charge in the difficult times, in life, as well as, in the good times.

The greatest "right" you will ever have is your "right" to talk with God, Himself.

There are no grandstands to watch the game of life.

God gives bounce to the fallen; and a rebound to those who see no possibilities.

The prize of ministry in kept in the hearts of those you have served.

Doubt grows best where no hope was planted.

Grace is a gift to those who deserves it least, given by the One who deserves everything.

Discipline is what we want for others but try our best to avoid applying to ourselves.

It seems that some folks are so busy pushing their agenda that they fail to see the consequences their agenda has on those around them.

It appears that Grace is given to you; in direct portion to the Grace you extend to others.

Revenge is the worse use of your resources, you could possibly ever make.

Regrets happen; the worse regrets are the ones are when you did not learn the lesson it should have taught you.

If you want to have a really good day, when you get up swallow a live toad and after that experience whatever happens next will be better.

Getting old doesn't seem to bother me all that much; it's my body seem be taking the bulk on the abuse.