Uncomfortable for a Season

In my heart, I know (for me that is) that I live a spiritual life with not a lot of focus on religion. This creates a comfortable life for me. However, I find that once a month, I enjoy going to mass and partaking in the Lord's Supper, confession and sharing of God's glory and a few song later, I feel much more comfortable. I am not Catholic, nor am I another religion that requires this ritual; instead my doing this is so that I feel closer to God and more comfortable in general.

Now, back to the novel on CD. This sweet family provided an adventure via this book for me to be able to see deeply into a personality defect that I have which causes other people to be uncomfortable. Discovering this fact alone made me uncomfortable; as I believe it would anyone. With a strong personality that is sure determined, unafraid of trying new things, tenacious and most of the time full of unwavering faith, I have developed the opinion that I am a good judge of how others need to live. Yes, there must be a few people in the audience chuckling by this time. Surely, my family members are finding cause to snicker. My mom calls it bossiness. All along, my thoughts were it was 'advice.'

Well, there are scenes in this book that describe a mother and daughter speaking to one another and enjoying and not enjoying being together again after having not had the opportunity in many years. The mother's illness causes the reunion. There is one scene in the book that occurs at a grocery store. Inside the store, the mother starts advising the daughter to do this, not do that, get this and please do not get that. The grocery clerk suggests that the daughter buy some aspirin because, you see, he can see that the mother is causing the daughter to be uncomfortable. While I listened to the story, all I could hear was that the mother was giving great advice. However, listening further and further provided me an avenue to see being 'the advice giver' as not pleasant. In fact, by the time a few chapters were under my belt, my understanding of what my behavior could be causing in others was downright vivid.

Back to the beginning of my subject for this article. It is easy to see how giving up chocolate can

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