Kintsugi (golden joinery) also known as Kintsukuroi (golden repair), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
Kintsugi highlights or emphasizes imperfections, visualizing the mends and seam on the broken or cracked piece. The seams on the broken or cracked piece are celebrated, not discarded. The cracks are highlighted with gold, silver, or platinum.
God has created us to be very emotional people. We laugh, we cry, we hurt, we moan, and we groan. There is so much to cry about these days and it may appear so little to rejoice over.
It okay to cry, in fact, we can be comforted knowing that God created us to cry at times. He knows that there will be a time for laughter and a time for crying. Sometimes, our tears can help us release, causing us to feel refreshed and restored. Now that is what I call a “good cry”.
Our lives are full of tears, rips, and tears. Things will happen in the lives that rip and tear us apart. The loss of a loved one; the injustices in the world; watching the ever increasing food lines for the needed at different churches; fears and disappointments, just to name a few.
Sometimes things happen to us or others, that will make us feel as though our hearts have been ripped out. There are things that will tear us apart and cause us so much pain that we will shed unbelievable and painful tears. “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry” Psalm 34:15).
Even when we cry in secret or behind closed doors, God sees our tears. God feels our pain. He knows when we have been wounded. He knows when we are disappointed and when people put us down and let us down. He pities our every moan and groan.
But the Bible clearly tells us that Jesus wept too. Jesus was God, and yet He was a human. He experienced the same emotions that we have. He knows how it feels to be disappointed, to moan, to be lied on, to be brokenhearted, and to be betrayed. He cried when he saw the pain of those He loved, and when He saw the sinful nature of man. He knows how it feels to be torn and ripped apart, and He expressed it sometimes with tears.
One day our pain and hurt will disappear, and we will never cry again. We will never feel the rip and tear that brings about so many tears. God has prepared a place for His children. A place that has not been built by man’s hands. There will be no more ripping and tearing. There will be no more sorrow or mourning. There will be peace, joy, and happiness, for all of eternity.
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