Deep breath and sigh... A beginning... this is my new blog! Why a new blog you might ask? Well, because I wanted a separate space for thinking/growing posts. I want, so very much, to write more and this blog is just the inspiration I need. The title, Kintsukuroi, what in the world right?! Well too be completely honest, I don't quite know the proper pronunciation of the word myself, but I'm bound and determined to find out, so stay tuned. It's what the word means that had me at "hello".
Kintsukuroi- “to repair with gold”; the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.
I came across this art form on Facebook. Someone posted a picture of this pottery and I was taken by the way it so accurately represents who we are in Christ. We are broken, weak, sinful, common "pottery", but when Christ takes up residence in our hearts and lives, through His saving grace, we are made new, made into Kintsukuroi! His gold fills us up, He is strength in our weakness, He makes us into a beautiful masterpiece for Him through our brokenness and need! He is glorified when the world can see that "this all surpassing power is from God and not from us"- 2 Corinthians 4:7. What a humbling honor that He chose to put His light in this broken pottery!
And because the image of this pottery is the story of my life, of God's saving work in me, it is the theme of my new blog, "His beauty in my broken". The golden rivers of His love in my life have me so humbly grateful every single day, and it's my hope that as I share my stories, my insights and struggles, you would see His beauty in my broken. Welcome!
All for Him!
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