Faith and life …

… Mary Karr’s True Stories - WSJ. (Hat tips to Dave Lull and Rus Bowden.)

Ms. Karr says that writing about hope is just as difficult as writing about pain. “The reason people fight against being hopeful is because it sets you up to be disappointed,” she says. “The reason people fight happiness is because if you don’t hope for anything, you never have your heart broken.” Writing memoirs and reflecting on her hopes and disappointments has made her realize that many people spend much of their lives hoping for the wrong things. She mentions a line the poet Louise Glück once wrote: “All my life I’ve worshiped the wrong gods.”