Recently, I was doing my usual Facebook scroll before dragging myself out of bed, when I came across this quote: 'In Japan, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the objects history which adds to it's beauty. Consider this when you feel broken'. I couldn't get this out of my mind, so I googled it and discovered that it is an art form call Kintsugi; the art of precious scars. There are parallels for us in this. Imagine if we could see our flaws as unique, our cracks and breaks as precious scars that are a unique part of our history. Imagine if they could be precious scars that help other people to see their scars as something beautiful. Something that encourages other people to be everything they are called to be instead of being held back by their history.

I thought about the painful things in my past and the things I am not proud of and I realised that many of them have become 'precious scars'. Things that were meant to cause destruction have not destroyed me, things that have held me down have not kept me there. However, for that to happen, I had to be able to allow God to work in the broken parts. I had to give those things to God for him to repair the brokenness and cover the fractures with precious gold. I had to walk through them with Him.

I think the thing that I loved the most about this was that just because it is broken doesn't mean it is useless. The break is part of it's unique history just as what has happened to us is part of ours. It is in the healing that it becomes a work of art and the healed area becomes a precious scar, just as valuable in the history as the unbroken parts. Being broken doesn't disqualify us from doing great things, if anything being broken makes us more useful, more able to achieve the incredible. The healed break is not the same as it was before, but it is even more beautiful.

http://www.kintsugiplanet.com/2017/12/kintsugiis-time-of-kintsukuroi.html