What if you firmly believed in the truth of one religion, but had opportunity to advise another person, a person who had been raised apart from his family's religion, yet was seeking deeply to find his life's way, which way to choose?
     This is precisely the question a Catholic priest faced in Saul Friedlander's powerful memoir, When Memory Comes.  Not raised as an observant Jew and having participated heavily in the Catholic Church (to the point of entertaining the notion of becoming a priest), Friedlander had now begun to reconsider his Jewish heritage.
     What is a priest, a person thoroughly committed to Christianity, to do?
     Saul, the aging cleric told him, consider where you feel most comfortable.  Consider what spiritual experience resonates with you most profoundly.  Meditate on the real person of God.  And consider that from which you have come. 
     What did Friedlander do?  He left the Catholic Church.  He rediscovered his Judaism. He moved to Israel and advocated much for the cause of the nation (the eretz, the land). As he saw it, he came home.
     Did the priest do the right thing?  As many a person has observed, all truth is God's truth. God is everywhere, and his truth is, too.  And this truth meets people where they are at. It speaks to them in the day, it talks to them in the night. And it satisfies all their longings.
     I do not know Friedlander's heart.  But I do know that if a person is genuinely seeking God, in Jesus Christ, God will not let him down.  He's always listening.  And he always speaks.
     And hope ever remains.