Secrets of a Contented Heart

I finished a new novel in May and the book spent the summer with an editor getting spruced. Since September I’ve been in the dreaded query process where I pitch the premise and some sample pages to dozens of literary agents in hopes of being “discovered” and getting a big publisher. It’s soul-wearying. Painstaking. A lot like sitting at a slot machine in a casino, watching your money dwindle with every game, telling yourself to give up, but unable to stop on this off-chance that the next one will hit the jackpot. I don’t enjoy limbo or uncertainty or waiting. I don’t think most of us particularly like having our feet suspended above the floor, unable to move forward or undo the past. But that’s where I live today: waiting for an email. You might be waiting, too. A new job, a house of your own, a better relationship, a child to love. I try to focus on the positive, on those things I’m not waiting for, but finding true contentment feels more elusive than a game of mind tricks. I’ve always been captivated by Paul’s words in Philippians: “I have learned the secret of being content in any and […]

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