I was raised in a home where there was no love. We were basically a group of people living in the same house. My mom and dad didn't take us to church very often. I did go to Relig. Ed. Until I made my first communion and until I was conform. We were more like the Easter Lilly plant at Easter time and the Christmas flower at Christmas time. In another words we went to church only on the holidays.
When I was a child I was mentally, phically and sexually abused by two different people. I was always told by my grandmother that if I did something wrong that God would punished me. I thought that I was being punished for something that I had done. I didn't know what I had done but I thought that it must have been something bad.
I carried that with me until I was at the age of 35. I love them so I didn't say anything about that. I just carried the pain with me all those years so I wouldn't hurt them. When I was 15 this was my God . It took away the pain. I didn't have to face reality and I didn't have to deal with my problems. It allowed me to be anything I wanted to be. But most of all it gave me my own privet little world. Know one could hurt me because I wouldn't let anybody in. I had no fillings for any or my self and I didn't care about anybody or anything. Because of my drinking my fillings was numb and my hart was hard like a rock.
When I got married I brought all of my problems into my marriage. At first things weren't to bad. When I got drunk we didn't fight very much. But as time went on things were getting worse and my drinking was increasing. It was at the point when we would fight I would throw my wife's clothes out of the house. Sometimes I would throw chairs out in the front yard. It was beginning to be a living nightmare.
I still didn't know God very much except for what people would tell me. They would tell me how he was a kind and loving God. I really had a hard time with that because of my childhood. I couldn't understained why God would allow something like this to happen to me. The only thing that I could see is that I was being punished for something that I had done. I really felt that God didn't love me. So I kept drinking to forget about the pain.
Then the alcohol turned on me. It took away my privet little would. It no longer took the pain away. Living with me was now a living hell. I lost jobs. My wife would have to call in for me when I was sick, although I wasn't really sick, I just had a hangover. Many of times when we would go out and I would get drunk, and I would wake up the next morning I couldn't remember would had happen that night. I would get mad when my wife would talk about that night because that night was a total blank. When something like that happens it is called a black out.
My drinking was so bad that sometimes I would wake up in the morning passed out with my face in a plate of food. When I would pass out like that my wife would leave me there until the next morning.
Many of times we would get into a bad fight I would pack my close to leave. Well when I would do that she would take the kids and put them in the closet so I couldn't get to my close, she know I wouldn't hurt the kids. My drinking was so bad that I would get up at 7:00 in the morning and go out side and start drinking again. The guilt was really starting to get to me because if I hard a car coming I would hide my beer so know one would see me drinking that early in the morning.
All I had to do with my life was to drink to live and live to drink. Jennings didn't have enough alcohol for me. I was very possessive with my beer. If some one would come over I wouldn't offer them any. Know that I look back I know that there is a God because all those years of the pain and problems in my life I see only one set of footprints in the sand.