Repairing the Broken Pieces with Gold

 Marcia Moston

I don't know how many of you are already familiar with this beautiful practice I've just learned about. It's called Kintsugi, a Japanese art form of rejoining the broken pieces of an object with lacquer made from precious metals like gold or silver. The patched piece is considered even more precious than the original because the flaws are part of the history of the object and make it what it is today--unique among all the other cracked objects.

Think of the lessons we can take from this--especially those of us who have been redeemed and our broken pieces are traced with the blood of God himself. I think also of the Valley of Achor--a place of "troubling" for the Israelites, but later the Lord made it a "door of hope."  

This is such a beautiful way to look at the cracked places of our lives--cracks that could leave us in useless pieces in the hands of the Master Artisan become works of precious art.

Blessings Abundant,

Marcia

P.S. I love to testify about how God can make all things good. You might want to check out my new book about the messes the I got myself into and the God who got me out of them.- Available now on Amazon: Going South--with the God of Jacob's and My Mistakes