Pieces lay scattered, after they fell. Shells, broken by the waves and the breaking open to release what is inside. Sometimes, the pieces are shattered beyond putting back together.
What do we do when our lives resemble broken and sometimes shattered pieces?? Brokenness that leaves me feeling broken and stunned, often without words.
Is there any hope? Is there any purpose that remains?
We wonder. We grieve, but because of Jesus - there is - a purpose. There is hope and something that - can still be - in the midst of broken, and hard, and shattered pieces.
Japanese art called, Kintsugi, is the method of taking the broken pieces and melding them together with a gold substance. The end result is something completely different, no longer the same but a new beauty that now includes the broken. The broken, in the hands of the one who is creating something else, finds new beauty with the pieces he holds.
Jesus holds out His hands and says, "Bring them to Me."
In His hands, the broken pieces find new meaning and a new purpose. In His hands, possibilities lie within the rubble.
The finished product is whole and complete again. The finished product is the broken and wholeness combined to find its new purpose, useful and beautiful.
After our breakings, there is hope when we take the pieces to Jesus and allow Him to reshape, make something new with the broken pieces. The end product won't be the same, but it will include the broken and wholeness, melded together with gold that's be tried in the furnace and held in the hands of a loving and faithful God who is our Father.
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