Just My Thoughts

By Mr. C. Hill

Tell me about yourself. This question stirs up thoughts and memories from as early as childhood to some of the happiest and worst times in your life. Now take a journey into the thoughts of new and upcoming author Calvin Hill as he takes you down memory lane to share his thoughts and inspire yours.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524659714

Mr. C. Hill

Calvin Hill, a husband and father of three boys, was born in Chesapeake, VA in 1981. He was raised there by his mother and father and had two siblings, a brother and a sister. Calvin’s school years were also spent in Chesapeake, VA and he graduated with the class of 2000 from Indian River High School. Upon graduation, Calvin decided to join the USMC where he served for 8 years including two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since childhood, Calvin felt that most people didn’t always understand his thoughts or that he wasn’t always able to relay them as he would have liked. On November 10, 2004, while serving in Iraq, Calvin began writing his thoughts down with no clear vision of what these “journals” would be or who would read them. He continued to write his thoughts in his journals as a way to speak the thoughts no one understood and to document the thoughts that he knew were straight from God. This continued sporadically throughout the years even until the present time. In September 2015, Calvin decided to share those thoughts with the world with the hope of inspiring someone else who may feel misunderstood. This was the birth of “Just My Thoughts.”

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/13/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5246-5972-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-5971-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017900586

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Contents

Chapter 1 Life

Chapter 2 Family

Chapter 3 When I was A Child

Chapter 4 ...The Son of a Preacher Man

Chapter 5 Church

Chapter 6 Doctrine

Chapter 7 Parenting

Chapter 8 Faith

Chapter 9 Truth

Chapter 10 God

Chapter 11 Time

Chapter 12 Parenting

Chapter 13 The End

Introduction

How many people take the time to travel through the thoughts of his or her mind, simply to try and make sense of what they may be thinking? Now, out of those that dare, how many can clearly express it without being offensive or a lunatic? We do not understand most people because we can’t see the thoughts behind what they say. Here is my attempt at doing that very thing. I used as much grace as I could in sharing my thoughts. Grace are special seasonings that can help transfer what we think into what we say. Grace is a salt that we season our words with in an attempt to feed someone else our thoughts. Not enough grace in what we say leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths.

Dedication

This book is Dedicated to the people that have inspired and contributed to the ideas and principles that I have lived with and struggled in. The people that have been there and supported me through the good and bad. The people that have set the example before and during my time. To the people that I need to say thank you to and the ones that I say thank you to even still.

To the leaders that I’ve never met, but have listened to over the years. Salute!

Thank you:

Deborah D. Hill, Marcus Hill Penelope Goss, Angela Fields, Arnold and Myra Fields, Alphonzo Twine, Alan Shorter, Keron Tull, Jeremy Petty, Isaac Gonzalez, Angela Hill, Caleb Fields-Hill, Bibleworld Church, Larry and Adena Conwell, Timothy Douglas and Raymond Goode.

People I’ll never get to thank:

Jim Rohn, Jerry (Rhino) Clark, Brian Tracy, Robert Kyosaky, T.D. Jakes, Bishop Noel Jones