Strangely enough, the last time I'd heard it was in church. "But if somehow you could pack up your sorrows And give them all to me You would lose them, I know how to use them, give them all to me."
It seems to fit about as well in church, maybe a tad better. An artist telling someone that he know how to use sorrows (presumably making songs of them) seems a bit callous, and the unlikely "you would lose them" is conditional on that "if somehow."
Jesus, on the other hand, can use sorrows. I suggested a time or two or three that suffering can be a means of union with God. For some of us it seems to be the main means here on Earth.
Once again though, you don't "lose" those sorrows. That seemed to be the implication of the song's use in that youth group eons ago, but I think I'm safe in saying that it just isn't true. There can be compensating joys, and sharing sorrows can sometimes lessen the pain. "I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another."
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I don't know if others lose those sorrows. I know that I don't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2eviTrXexo
Sorrow can remind me to depend on God, but what I find most is that it teaches me empathy, otherwise a difficult lesson--except, for some reason, concerning animals, where my empathy is involuntary and overwhelming. Especially orphaned, cast-out animals: I go nuts. But with people, it seems I need the spike through my own heart to open my eyes.
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