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.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

There are countless, friendships, opportunities, fame and fortunes, lost in the difference between “ I can’t and I won’t “. 

Solitude is often best when shared with someone you love. 
Life is a journey into whatever comes next with zeal and faith leading the way.  

You can never know how good God is or how bad you are... only Grace can give you even a glimpse. 

‪The people who are always complaining that they are not getting all they deserve, really don't know how fortunate they already are.‬

You will never “get better” without God’s help.

‪Givers live on a budget that allows then to share, takers have no budget limiting what they are willing to take!‬

‪You will find out that, most often,  to do something different, you will have to learn to think differently. ‬

‪Your life has little chance of success, without your effort. ‬

‪If you are a Christian the “Good news” only gets better but if you reject Jesus, the “bad news” only gets worse!‬

No sinner is happy very long. Soon that sinner hates his master. 

‪You are never truly free in the world; you will and must serve either Satan with selfishness or God with righteousness.‬

‪However, you will serve God out of the deepest of love or serve Satan with tremendous regret and anger. ‬

‪“Choose you today whom you will serve.”and as Paul pointed out...do it daily. ‬

‪Those who depend on money, luck, and unearned opportunity, are soon left in the dust, as those, who work hard, pass them by. ‬
‪Never let your compassion excuse sin.‬

‪Offering an avenue of reconciliation is the best response to those who have fallen away.‬

‪Build bridges not barriers to those who refuse to abandon their evil ways.‬

‪Never let evil cross back over into your life, let those bridges you built be bridges of hope.‬

Your good reputation is your best shield against darts thrown by the selfishness of others. 

Your reputation is not always a choice but you can live in such a way that other people will have a hard time believing the bad things other might be saying about you. 

One day, I woke up thinking that I was a better person, but little changed. The next day I got up and did something about being a better person and life was better.

‪Christian, you our life is designed as God’s way of explaining the difference between good and evil.‬

‪You are here to reveal God differently than anyone else on earth. ‬

‪Your life is to effect other lives, to be a window for some and a doorway for others, to see and discover who Jesus is!‬

‪We are like a ten speed bicycle, full of gears we seldom use. We are satisfied with whatever gear we are in...we choose not to push on to different speeds, in order to reach, our full potential, comfort becomes our enemy. ‬

‪Information without change and obedience is informed stupidity. ‬

Mercy is love in action. 

‪Christians need not only speak the truth but must be infected with a commitment to obedience. ‬

‪Words are always easier to say than to do! ‬

‪Soft words are a pleasure to swallow,  but hard and harsh works crack your teeth. ‬

‪Speak what you live...you will not always be praised, but people will be believe you believe what you have said. Therefore, causing them to question themselves. 

Prayer makes a good family  better.

Payer makes the Bible seem better. 

Prayer makes good surgeons better.

Prayer makes good preachers better.

Prayer makes your good friends better.

Prayer makes you, everyone, and everything, better

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