Dear Julie, Thank you so much for Meditations On Love, Relationships, and Letting Go.

#5 is:

The heart has many rooms in it.
In one can exist the sweetness of love,
In another the sorrow of love's passing.

I always thought that sorrow should be released from the heart (dealt with, conquered)? -- Kelly

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Dear Kelly,

There is sorrow that is connected with the ego and sorrow that is connected with pure love as it passes through all dimensions.

The sorrow connected with love arises where pure love in service to another or to all cannot find an adequate channel for expression due to external limitations. It also arises when souls reject love. Selfless love is part of God's heart, as are the tears of that heart when human beings suffer due to their own limitations and rejections.

Sorrow also arises as a companion to compassion. Where others suffer and remain in a state of pain or separation, the heart of the Christ within seeks to ease that pain and willingly suffers to share the burdens that others carry.

Love that transmutes sorrow is also real, where this sorrow is part of grief, loss, attachment, or clinging of the ego to something that is a substitute for Divine connection. However, the examples I have given above are not substitutes for Divine connection but a part of Divine connection.

Two other things are important to understand in relation to sorrow:

First, if one is removed from the human plane of expression which is the plane of duality, then there is no limitation and no cause for sorrow. Indeed, on this higher plane there is no such thing as 'love's passing', since love is eternal and there is nothing to cause it to 'pass'.

Second, Sorrow and joy are not mutually exclusive. They can exist side by side in a heart that is full of love.

Blessings, beloved. Julie Redstone