The art of kintsugi reflects the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which calls for seeing beauty in the flawed, the damaged, the imperfect. The idea is to appreciate the whole history of the pottery piece, including it’s brokenness. Once reassembled, the piece is considered more beautiful and elegant than the original as the fault lines are now lined with precious veins of gold. It is also stronger and more precious because the repaired breakages make the object more, not less, valuable. God has a wabi-sabi philosophy of his own—he does kintsugi on his people all the time.
