These are revelations I received on the second half of a labyrinth walk I took on the evening of June 5, 2022 (around 5:45 p.m.) at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, TX 76092.
I didn’t know it then, but I recognize now why I had written ‘Kintsugi – beauty in the brokenness’ in my notes.
When you can see, accept, embrace, and love the brokenness in yourself and others, THEN you can you truly love
Kintsugi 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.
The idea that something (or someone) is damaged beyond all repair is not always true. And sometimes, just like with a broken bone, when we are healed, we are stronger than before in that area.
If we accept our imperfections as part of what makes us human, we can find the grit to overcome the brokenness within us and learn to love ourselves and others.
The deeper the pain, the wider it’s ripple effect
The phrase “hurt people hurt people” is something I’ve talked about before, but I don’t know that I’ve really communicated how lashing out in pain/from pain creates this horrific ripple effect.
Someone gets hurt, they lash out and hurt someone else… and that person takes their pain and hurt and then lashes out at someone else. It’s a vicious cycle.
However, it is one that can be broken.
Rebuild from the echoes of love
