Kintsugi

This is taken from an article by Dave Furman called, Brokenness is Not a Barrier:

I once read about an ancient Japanese art form called Kintsugi. It’s a fitting picture of how God uses us in ministry. Kintsugi, which literally means “golden patchwork,” involves joining together broken pottery pieces with gold or another precious metal.

The artist takes the broken pieces of pottery—cups, bowls, or plates—and puts them together again to form the original items. Rather than hiding the flaws of the pottery, he or she highlights the cracks by sealing them with gold. The bowl’s brokenness becomes its beauty.

Kintsugi is found in museums throughout Japan because the “broken” art is seen as more beautiful than an unbroken cup or bowl.

God’s ways are not our ways. We naturally think he needs us to be strong. But his ways are more like Kintsugi. In his perfect plan, God has always picked broken people to do extraordinary things. He has planned to use pain for our good and his glory in ways we could never imagine.