They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M.

Dave M. entered a monastery to become a priest, fell in love with alcohol on his first beer, and spent the next decade hiding bottles behind medicine cabinets, teaching religion drunk, and dragging himself across the floor for one more broken bottle — until AA taught him to stay in God's wheelbarrow. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️  Sober-Sunrise.com Dave grew up a scared, scrawny hillbilly kid in Pennsylvania who fantasized about killing his abusive father and ran to the Catholic church because it was the only safe place he knew. He packed himself into two A&P shopping bags and entered a monastery to become a priest — and fell in love with alcohol on his very first beer, dancing through the halls in his underwear at 3am. He hid bottles behind the medicine cabinet wall, taught high school religion on tranquilizers, and spent years cycling through psych wards with his wrists slit. At his worst he was dragging himself through 17 cats' worth of filth to break a Stoney's bottle on the fridge drawer handle and drink it with glass cutting his lips. They pronounced him dead twice. An old-timer gave him a gold watch and told him to talk to God for 15 minutes a day in an empty chair, and another told him step three was simple — just stay in God's wheelbarrow no matter how shaky it gets on the wire. Today the man who once fantasized about his father's blood on his hands got to clean him, feed him, and love him before he died. Dave M. from Painsville, OH speaking at the Collinwood Liberty Group's 59th Anniversary meeting in Cleveland, OH - March 20th 2009 Music: Deep by KaizanBlu