The Japanese have a beautiful art form of repairing broken bowls called kintsugi (golden repair). The more than 4 centuries old method honors the broken item’s rich history by emphasizing, not hiding, the break. Local craftsman stumbled upon the method after the 15th Century Shogun broke his favorite tea bowl and some poor methods were employed to fix it. The artisans then decided to highlight the flaws, rather than try to hide them, making beauty from brokenness.
Bowls are mended with a golden lacquer, making them works of art and strengthened with gold. We are all like these broken vessels. Broken, unique, but like those bowls, it is what makes us beautiful and strong.
Every hurt, every heartache, heart break, every time we have fallen down or fallen apart, everything that breaks us, it is the getting back up that forges us like gold, makes us beautiful in our brokenness.
The friends, the family, the faith that sustain us, all make up the gold lacquer that fill the cracks in our brokenness. Seek those out when you are feeling as if you have crashed to the floor into bits and pieces. Find what it is that makes you stronger, what makes you beautiful in your brokenness, that holds you together. He is near.
The Son is the gleaming brightness of God’s glory. He is the exact likeness of God’s being. He uses his powerful word to hold all things together.
Hebrews 1:3a
IT'S A HARnDen LIFE... 
The words we need to hear and need his glory in our broken times.
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