Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with a lacquer mixed with gold or other fine metals. This beautiful art is also a perfect example of what God the Father does with our broken and wounded hearts. Everyone has a wound or brokenness in their hearts in some way. The following poem was inspired by this idea that God is not only our maker but also the one who cares for our broken pieces and puts them back together in a way that reflects our royal inheritance.
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Kintsugi
Shards of clay
Shattered pieces
Subjects of anger
Objects of carelessness
Some with moss
Some with dirt
All with pain
All with hurt
Earthy, dusty, moldy
Left on the ground to rot
Ugly, bruised, broken
On this planet this is their lot
To be ground into dust
To be cracked, smashed, and utterly ruined
Left to rust
Completely abandoned
Yet the sun shined on them still
A figure walking down the hill
Silhouetted against the warm sun
Gingerly strolling through the moss
Gentle hands reached down
Soft fingers
Gathering up the lost
Pieces that were long forgotten
Too damaged to be mended
Too undesirable to be wanted
Trash to be tossed
Yet this person remained unabated
To pick up this rubbish
To gather up this garbage
Placing each piece with utmost care
Into a satchel that he would wear
One by one
Seemingly thousands of pieces
To be carried across fields and streams
Back to a cabin
A shop it would seem
The satchel laid down lightly
Upon a work bench
And each piece retrieved
Each individual fragment
In loving hands received
The hands moved adroitly
Deftly taking each shard and bit
Skillfully put the vessels back together
As if these hands belonged to the potter himself
The maker of these pots
As if this man walked for days in the wilderness
To find his wayward and stolen lots
Days and days of searching
Even to save just one
These skillful hands his vessels mended
Reassembling each and every part
Fused together with liquid gold
Earthen, ordinary, common pieces
Now a priceless work of art
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