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I read an article recently about Kintsugi. I had never heard of it before reading this article. It is a Japanese form or art, where they take cracked and broken pottery or glass, and ‘fix it’ with gold. Instead of trying to hide the crack caused by brokenness, they enhance it with beautiful gold and also increase its value. The pictures I saw of these pieces of pottery were just beautiful. Here in our western culture we try to hide the cracks, and try to make a repaired or restored piece look like it did before, or as good as new. But it’s not. It’s gone through a breaking, and needs a restoration. It has a history, and a new story needs to be told of it new restored beauty, it actually can be better than before, and more valuable when restored with the gold.
God can also take our broken cracked lives, and repair it with his gold. I love how the Passion translation renders 1 Peter 5:10 ““And then, after your brief suffering, the God of all loving grace, who has called you to share in his eternal glory in Christ, will personally and powerfully restore you and make you stronger than ever. Yes, he will set you firmly in place and build you up.”
We all go through some kind of suffering in life, some caused by circumstance beyond our control, some by self infliction. But no matter how it’s come, God’s grace (His divine influence in your life) can restore that suffering and brokenness and make it better than new. Let His grace become the gold that puts you back together, a new piece with greater value, because you’ve let that which is broken become something of beauty.
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