I am a Gentile on Yom Kippur. I have my issues. I drink too much, I like my cigars, I have lied from time to time to my wife, my friends, myself. I am hoping god is a god of Mercy since i have not lived up to his call. But this is who I am. I functional alcoholic, two weeks away from being a dad to a little girl. It has been a long strange trip, but I think we are going to make it. My wife is the tough one....30 weeks of bedrest. We are almost there.......and we will reach our endgoal....