More beautiful, once having been broken Journal entry August 12 2022. -- Kinstugi is the practice of mending broken pottery with gold-dusted lacquer, which results in a beautiful piece of pottery. Makoto Fujimura, an artist, relates the art of mending to our faith journeys. The world, he says, pursues perfection. We want to make things look as if they’d never been broken. But these Japanese aesthetics values the fractures that remain— and remake these potteries to be even more beautiful with the gold platings. The broken jar is actually more beautiful now, having been restored. Back in the day, they didn’t have a safe nor banks, so in a home, the most beautiful treasures were put in these jars. The jars needed to be broken, so that the ‘gold’ inside could be taken out. Same with our story..the treasure of who He wants to make us to be, can be let out when we let Christ work on our brokeness. Mending is a slow process. Come to Him and be mended. Some of us doesn’t want to get healed because healing hurts. You don’t want to get into that cast. But if you ask someone who have been healed from a broken leg, a 1000% they would say it was worth the hurt. Until you can walk again. You can run again. You can jump again. ALL of us are cracked vessels in need of the Father’s skillful mending. So, bring up your broken pieces—heart, mind, body and soul—to the Master Potter and allow him to put you back in a way that displays His glorious craftmanship, my dear. #micah6womenblog