The Secret of Happiness

Focus and do some serious writing!

I admonished myself early yesterday morning. So finally I started writing my next book. It's about finding your own true love.

Romantic?

Kinda.

But first, I prayed for grace—to pump adrenaline into my alarmingly lethargic Monday system. And, presto, for eight hours straight, I thrashed my computer keyboard like I never did before, breaking only for a brief lunch.

Before supper, I had a ten-page first draft of the first chapter.

This first draft has to undergo thrashing, too. Today would have been the first of the many days that it would go through beating and bruising, but I made the mistake of picking up one of my new books.

“Reading and writing, they go together,” I would often say in my talks. I followed my own advice today, and reading took every single hour I would have spent on my first-chapter draft, or writing the next chapter.

I will blog about the book—one of the most engaging and stirring I have ever read—when I have more time. Right now, I am being called to the dining table for supper. Let me just summarize page 102.

“What is the secret of happiness?”

“Be satisfied.”

“That's it?”

“Be thankful.”

“That's it?”

“For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you.”

“That's it?”

“That's it.”