Kintsugi

I love this. A friend recently told me about Kintsugi. “Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.” –Wikipedia

I want to see myself, and others, this way. Like can be rough. We won’t make it through without cracking, breaking, falling, etc. But, as we teach our kids, the important part is to keep getting up and trying again. All is not lost if we make mistakes. Even big ones. We can be repaired, with the help of God, and come out even more beautiful than before. And, hiding the fact that we’ve been broken, doesn’t usually serve us well. The bumps in the road can add to the beauty of our soul, if we let it.