I have often wondered why we have to deal with sorrow in our lives, particularly when it can so very overwhelming and we struggle to see a way forward. Perhaps it is our Higher Self gently nudging us to heal, to release beliefs and programming that are holding us in the past. For us to acknowledge and release the trapped pain and emotions that we are carrying, influencing and preventing us from seeing our own true magnificence. Perhap this poem by Rumi says it so well

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

Rumi