Dear God, please help me set aside everything I think I know so I may have an open mind and a new experience. Please help me see the Truth. Amen. ~ one version of The Set Aside Prayer

I know this stuff, have read it all
(well, most of it) and been to meetings
(well, a lot of them) and worked the Steps
(back then, been there, done that)
and lived the program (pretty well.)
I’m an authority. Just watch the people
come up with an issue and look to me.
They know I know. They trust me to know.
But what I really know is that I don’t know.
And I know I’m not honest when honesty means
What did I need to say to this person
so they knew how I honestly felt about them
and the situation? Was I wrongfully silent?
My mind is closed to the more, to the better,
to the possible. If I want to grow, to become,
to discover the unexpected, the undeserved,
the magnificent, I must set aside what I know
and admit I don’t know except that I know
the Set Aside Prayer.