We don’t always understand the whys of life.  Why we were hurt? Why we get sick? Why life is unfair or at least seems unfair?  Why someone purposefully hurts us with their words or actions?

We can respond one of two ways.  We can remain broken by what was spoken or done to us, trying to hold on to the pieces of our hearts or lives as we walk around.  Or we can stop and go to the Lord and allow Him to put the pieces back together.

Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of repairing something that is broken and highlighting the beauty of its brokenness.  The piece of pottery is put together by melted gold that infuses itself to the pottery and makes a lasting bond.  What fascinates me the most of this art form is that the gold doesn’t mask the areas that were broken it actually highlights them.  Those areas now become an integral, beautiful part of this whole vessel that was once in pieces.  What makes it pleasing to the eye is the gold that was not a part of the original piece but was brought in to put it together.  That vessel would not look as beautiful if it were put back together with crazy glue.  You may or may not see the cracks, it may or may not stay together.  It may stay together but won’t be as smooth on the surface as  with gold.  We do the same thing in life…

We choose how and if we will be put back together.

We choose who we take our pieces and brokenness to.

We choose how and if we will allow ourselves to  heal.

Psalms 147:3 says, He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.

Allow God to heal your brokenness, allow Him to bind up your wounds.  Let Him make you more beautiful still.  Let the scars reveal the beauty of your life and not the shame of the brokenness. Let Him come into your life like refined gold and mend those pieces and make you stronger and more confident in displaying the wonder of who He has created you to be.

PS.  Crazy glue is NOT the same thing as Gold!  Stop trying to use your own glue to put yourself back together and give yourself to God and allow him to put you together.  Only then will you see the value in who you are, once you are made whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAmh3yvmzXs