…about many well-intentioned Christians and clergy. Their religion has never touched them or healed them at the unconscious level where all of the real motivation, hurts, unforgiveness, anger, wounds, and illusions are stored, hiding—and often fully operative. They never went to “the inner room” where Jesus invited us, and where things hid “secretly” (Matthew 6:6). ~ Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

But when you pray…
I can do the going into a closed room,
shutting the door. Praying. Well,
maybe not well, the praying part.
But did I miss something?
What’s hidden in there, secretly?
It’s not the unconscious level
with anger, wounds, unforgiveness,
illusions stored there…
Or is it? Is there a way to go there,
look at those things, surrender them
and walk away leaving the hurts,
the discomfort in there? Is that
what prayer’s all about?
Maybe I can do that. I see the point
now.