"Yes.  Father, it's always a great goodness to be with you, even if nothing is troubling me.  But you are the only human I can always talk to and know that you will grok and that you yourself won't be overwhelmed by it, too.  Jill... Jill always groks - but if it hurts me, it hurts her still more.  Dawn the same.  Patty... well, Patty can always take my hurt away, but she does it by keeping it herself.  All three of them are too easily hurt for me to risk sharing in full with them anything I can't grok and cherish before I share it." Mike looked very thoughtful. "Confession is needful.  The Catholics know that, they have it - and they have a corps of strong men to take it.  The Fosterites have group confession and pass it around among themselves and thin it out.  I need to introduce confession into this church, as part of the early purging - oh, we have it now, but spontaneously, after the pilgrim no longer really needs it.  We need strong men for that - 'sin' is hardly ever concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin - and when you grok it with him, it can be very disturbing.  I know."