True Thoughts: Encouraging Words (For a Change)

By Baron Jones

I wrote this book to encourage people to hold on, even when it look like things ain't gone never change, you can't give up. You have to trust God and His children because it's hard to do it by yourself but not if we do it together. That's what make it harder than it is. If you think it can't be done it can't, if you think

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Apr 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781950540235

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Encouraging Words (For a Change)

Baron Jones

Copyright © 2019 by Baron Jones.

Paperback: 978-1-950540-22-8

eBook: 978-1-950540-23-5

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Contents

1.    In God We Trust

2.    Happy Then Sad

3.    Reminder

4.    Cry

5.    Every Now And Then

6.    Back

7.    Coming Out The Closet

8.    Time

9.    Boy Or Man

10.  Have Nots

11.  The Reason

12.  Tired

13.  Closer I Get

14.  Your World

15.  Hate \ Love

16.  Apologize

17.  The End

June 27, 1971

Icey Jones gave birth to me; I was brought into a world that had a lot of hatred, jealousy, envy and greed - born into a race of people that were not believed to be equal to another race. I came into this world with a pure and innocent heart - trusting, loving and kind, all the attributes of God as I understand Him. The older I get, the more I learned about this world, this system and how things were run, the colder I become, I started losing my innocent and pure heart. It wasn’t based simply on my life but on my people as a whole.

I came from a middle class family. My mother worked hard and long hours to be able to support me and my siblings - a brother and a sister. We always had a place to stay, food and nice things. My biological father wasn’t a part of my life. When I became a teenager, my mother got married; I had another brother and a stepfather. Around that time, I was already set to my own ways. Soon after, I started using alcohol and drugs like most teenagers - just experimenting. Later in life I found out it’s called self-medicating, trying to numb my feelings because I didn’t know my purpose. I was spiritually starving, confused and my people were getting worse.

As people, we were frightened, demoralized and hopeless. The best thing I could do is getting a job; buy nice things then soon die. Keep living like this forever and act like nothing is wrong, just worry about myself but I figured out that’s how the people running things wanted me to think. Division makes it easier for them to keep us under control, I don’t blame my people, and it was put in our ancestors to make us think how we think now, just