What do you do when something precious gets broken? Replace it as soon as possible? Throw the old thing away? Perhaps try to fix it?
In 15th Century Japan, shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa inspired a rather elegant solution for broken things. He instructed his craftsmen to repair broken ceramics with lacquered gold. Every ugly crack in a broken tea bowl suddenly glimmered with a seam of glittering gold, and a new art form, kintsugi, was born.
Kintsugi celebrates brokenness and makes it part of an object’s history, rather than pretending, or hiding the fracture lines. It’s a beautiful picture of what God does for us - taking our brokenness and our scars and transforming those things into part of the beauty that makes us who we are.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.” - Isaiah 53:5
Jesus shows us how extraordinary beauty can come from desperate brokenness, how deep wounds can be repaired even if they can’t quite be forgotten. Are there areas of your life that need healing? What wounds are you carrying? Ask God to step into your fracture-lines and to bring the golden touch of Heaven into your life. Jesus is the master at the art of bringing beauty from brokenness.
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