Beauty and brokenness have been themes here for years. Inustice can interrupt and disrupt, creating open wounds (which we will discuss again tomorrow) but our pain and wounds can also be something else…

I read this recently , in one of the Centre for Action and Contemplation’s daily meditations.

The Living School [and the CAC as a whole] teaches that this begins with us individually. If it is true that hurting people hurt people, then it must also be true that healing people heal people. Origen (185–254 CE) claimed the skandala—the scars and scandals in our lives—dig out the deep meaning. Our hurts become “health-bestowing wounds,” the source of our individual spiritual genius, which shapes the unique work we are called to do in the world. It’s our wounds that lead to wisdom and teach us, ultimately, how to love and heal the world.

Like Kintsugi—the Japanese method of repairing pottery using gold, silver, or platinum to fill in the cracks—this doesn’t hide our brokenness but makes it beautiful. Thus, we all work to repair the world in a similar way. [1]

As someone who makes a living in part from pottery, you would expect me to agree to this.