Kintsukuroi, derived from two Japanese root words that mean “gold” and “join”, is the art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer that is then dusted or mixed with powdered gold. It can loosely be translated as mending with gold.  The idea behind it is to treat cracks and repairs as events that occur in the life of an object, rather than allowing its service to end as a result of its damage or breakage. It is a long and extremely accurate process that yields a perfect final result. Like other things in nature, it has a series of steps that get it to the final perfect product. The pieces of broken pottery are first picked up, cleaned, and assembled one by one. Then the cracks are filled with lacquer, many layers of lacquer before the gold is now sprinkled on it.  Like pottery, we have had moments in our lives that have thrown us to the ground and broken or even shattered us. Right then, we are incapable of putting ourselves back together. But there is someone who can; our Abba, our Father. It doesn’t matter the number of pieces we’ve been broken into. He will pick us up piece by piece and clean us up. Then just like with the lacquer, He will fill up the cracks in our lives with His love, and he will decorate us with His glory so that we’ll shine like gold. 2 Corinthians 2:17 says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. He takes us away from our old broken state and makes us new.  John 6:37: “Everyone whom the Father gives he will come to me, and the one who comes to me, I will never send away.” This is all the reassurance that you need that Jesus will take you just as you are. He will not send you away because you are battered, broken, and bruised. And just like the Kintsukuroi, he’ll make you even more beautiful than you were before. The Potter wants to put you back together again. He says come; come as you are.  

Praise-God Ukob