Kintsugi anyone?

From Wikipedia:

"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, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."

What a beautiful concept...

My brokenness often gets the best of me.  Instead of a functional creation with form, purpose and integrity, I am often the fragments lying on the floor.  

God picks up those fragments, one by one - slowly and tenderly applying the lacquer, lacing it with his golden love.  Piece by piece he rebuilds, restores - knowing the value of the whole.  Soon a shape can be discerned - but jagged, with rough edges.  

There is some functionality present, yet care is needed in its use - time for the bonding to solidify. As time passes, some fragments loosen and fall back as gravity pulls towards lower levels of being.  

God's hands keep crafting, searching and finding just the right piece to fill just the right holes.

There are moments when the creation is whole again - and its use fulfills its design.  It seems though that forces in this world work against continued wholeness, and soon the floor is filled with fragments again.

It is a process followed over and over again...for Our God does not know surrender.   

Maybe this is what God sees when he looks at you and me....Such beauty - why are we so intent on hiding it?