Hello, my name is Michael from Sydney Australia.

7 weeks ago my wife left me and our marriage, after a difficult period in our relationship and many extenuating circumstances. There was abuse from both parties and I would always return to our basis of love, commitment and union. Instead of this, she went to the law, without any communication or contact with me, that any such action would ever take place. I found out from a lawyer that my marriage was over. I love her and believe there is a much better way forward to seek counselling, unfortunately I am unable to communicate with her directly, having been completely shut out.

I believe in God and have had several crisis in my life. I am 35 but have a very old soul, having been through many near death experiences and sudden loss of loved ones. The gift of this experience, tough and unique as it is, is returning to the deep self and dealing with the pain as it arises.

I am wondering if you can pray for me and If there is something I can do with and in my life to bring and share true love with others and with a special other? - Michael

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Dear One,

Your heart, which has expanded in its knowledge of love, is yearning for sacred relationship with others and with an intimate 'other'. Yet this heart is also divided in its capacity to engage in such a relationship to the degree that it becomes defensive and, out of woundedness, can create harshness, pain, or suffering to another. This suffering does not need to be physical. It can be emotional as well. And those who have a sense of what love can truly be, know that they must become more responsible for not creating pain on the level of feelings as well as on the level of the body.

You are a beautiful soul and truly gifted in the understanding of many aspects of life. Still, as it happens so often, there are places in your heart that are not fully 'advanced' in your understanding of how 'to be' or why what you are saying or doing might not be of benefit to another.

Your losses are part of your learning, it is true, yet this loss in particular must be looked at in terms of how it happened and why it happened. There is much to be learned from the present circumstances.

Blessings, dear precious soul. You have come such a long way and must go still deeper within yourself to see those places in need of ongoing healing. - Julie Redstone