Gotta problem with your religion? Good.

"Just on a theoretical level there is a mistake in going from the background you come from to an entirely fresh background. The way you know that a religion is your religion is that you have problems with it. If you don’t have problems with it, it’s not your religion."

This quote is from an interview with Philip Groening about his new film Into Great Silence. I liked it so much because I think it succinctly addresses a topic that is often on my mind: the problem of shopping around for a religion, or for that matter, a denomination or congregation.

Lord, I pray that I will never cease having problems with the religion through which I find myself being reached by you.