I see them every day. They are broken but they are beautiful and are my favorite little tea cups that sit on a table in the dining room. These tea cups are pieces of what is called kintsugi pottery. Kintsugi is a Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a special epoxy that is dusted with gold. This ancient art form has its roots in the belief that regret should come from something valuable being wasted. So the Japanese found a way to put the broken pottery back together with a compound 
covered with gold. As a result, the repaired pieces tend to be more beautiful than the original. Instead of hiding the cracks and flaws, the potter drew attention to them. He celebrated what the pieces became after being shattered.
These little tea cups are a daily reminder to me of that very thing, Beauty through brokenness. It reminds me that the very thing feared. . .brokenness, is actually the door to our Father’s heart. Brokenness is where the beauty really all begins!
I have learned much through the broken places and uncertainties of 2020. There is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound—no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth. My word for 2020 was clarity. Amazing how “brokenness” brings way to clarity like never before. Things have become clear to me in ways I never dreamed. And most definitely not in the way I expected.
For those who walk out of 2020 feeling a little broken (ok, a lot broken) and out of sorts….That brokenness is a canvas for God’s light to do something new, and miraculous in your life. And you are never too broken for God to use your story. What you think are broken places that can’t be used, Gods sees as a way to reach someone who needs you. And He will use your 
story to help someone who may be going through exactly what you are. He needs you. He never wastes a hurt or wound. Wounds can be openings to the beauty, and weaknesses can be a container for God’s glory. Embrace those broken, beautiful places and walk into the wonderful new normal of what awaits!
Isaiah 43:19. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Take a look at this interesting video on kintsugi pottery and how this Japanese art form make broken things new again!