One of the best illustrations I know for demonstrating how God uses brokenness is the art of kintsugi. Developed in Japan in the fourteenth century, kintsugi takes broken pieces of pottery and rejoins them using a lacquer with a beautiful gold powder.12 The word “kintsugi” literally means “to join with gold.” What makes kintsugi art so unique is that it actually emphasizes the broken pieces rather than trying to hide or disguise them, or discarding the object altogether.
