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, May 15, 2018

No one gets better by making someone else worse.

Cleaning your neighbor’s life is much more fun and much eaier, than cleaning up your own.

Encouraging others rarely discourages you.

To many denomination and churches practice “extra credit Christianity”.  All credit goes to Jesus...period.

Anyone who cant see hope for you in your future is your enemy.

God still doesn’t need your help for Him to keep carrying  your burdens.

All sin is “ gross negligence” living.

Changing “could be” into “will be” is all about perseverance, dedication and Faith.

Whatever you are willing to put before God, is what just crossed your mind.

You cannot have more joy than you have mercy.

Complaining is an invasion of your Faith.

Courage is when we stand for what we believe in; it is also what we use to sit down and listen to the enemy’s side of a story.

Christians have the weapon of mass unity at their disposal. It is called by several names mercy, kindness, forgiving, and love.

















Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Being perfect is out of reach; being faithful, respectful, loving, and caring, are all within your grasp!

The tougher your life the more meaningful your testimony becomes.

Treating others with consistent love starts with you loving yourself as Christ does...consistently.  “Love your neighbor as you love yourself”

If you hate yourself, how can you love your neighbor?

Loving yourself and being selfish are not related.

A Christian should never be AWOL!

The world and the lost are the ones who hate your for being right, they can shake you for telling them, even in kindness, that they are are wrong. But they cannot break you; that can only be done by you turning your back on your own faith.

Pastors are just missionaries that stayed home to feed and nourish, love, the supporters of those who went abroad.

The mission of a missionary is not to make “ little Americans” but to make “ little Christ’s” of their converts.

Your mission work will likely start nearer home before it travels to another country.

Pastors are home missionaries who stayed home.

A pastor is a missionary playing a “home game”.

Marriage consists of mutual love evolving into mutual dreams!

Love is less about a “Prince Charming” and more about a hard working, loving, godly man or woman.

True love celebrates the success of others more than their own accomplishments.

Love is not a one day affair but a lifetime of memories.

Learn to be more flexible and less brittle.

Jesus was flexible, yet unbreakanly strong at the same time.

Being a Christian takes both flexibility and an unrelenting backbone.

Being right with a chip on your shoulder saying (I AM RIGHT) is earsier that living right in love.

Happiness resides in a well loved person.

Contentment is digested love.

Life’s greatest hope of love is to be loved in return.


Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Planning is the second hardest thing you do, making it happen is the hardest.

Plan your time or your time will plan for you.

Don’t let things happen, make them happen.

Doing right often takes a greater effort than doing wrong.

Mercy is harder to give than to receive.

Mercy has few friends and many enemies.

Mercy is what we pray for after we are caught.

Without mercy no one survives.

Mercy and power are in a continuing battle.

Spousal abuse is a personal moral failure. It is where character is sacrificed and then slaughtered, on the altar of selfishness and anger.

Learn to passionately pursue God’s plan for your life.

Spare nothing to do the “right things”.

Where your heart is passion resides it abundance.

The more you pursue Jesus the further behind self will fall.  (He must increase and I must decrease.)

The White House Correspondents Dinner is where words were treasured, not by their validity, but by the amount of pain they inflicted.  While good folks did or said nothing.

Diversity and divisiveness have become strange bedfellows; rather than being celebrated as special, they are now being used to prosper hate.

When people are determined to do wrong, etiquette and integrity are no longer a hindrance.

Your decision are, to great degree, predestined by your values.

It is hard to determine who has committed a greater wrong; the one who slanders someone chooses to stand by and listen to them, without doing or saying something to protest the slander or to stop it.