More Beautiful for Having Been Broken ©️Dawn Minott

On By Dawn MinottIn Prose, Shabbat Shalom

When a clay pot falls to the ground, breaking is inevitable.

The impact shatters what once was whole—jagged edges, scattered fragments, a loss of shape and function. Even if one dares to gather the pieces, attempts to put it back together often leave visible cracks—scars that speak louder than the former beauty. Scarred. Scarred for life. No longer fit for display. Discarding seems inevitable.

But what if that isn’t the end of the story?

Enter the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi—the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold.

Kintsugi doesn’t pretend the break never happened. It doesn’t hide the damage. Instead, it honors it, emphasizing the fractures, not to glorify the break, but to highlight the healing.

The gold-filled cracks become a testimony of endurance and transformation. The vessel, once discarded, is now more precious than before—made whole with beauty drawn from brokenness.

Psalm 147:3 says, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

God, the ultimate Kintsugi Artist, does not discard us when we break, when we shatter.

He does not hide our brokenness beneath shame or pretense. Instead, He gathers every piece—every break caused by sorrow or trauma—and binds them together with His grace, His mercy, His love. His healing doesn’t erase the wounds—it redeems them. The scars remain, but now they gleam with purpose.

Like Kintsugi, divine healing does not restore us to what we were before. It makes us stronger, more radiant, more whole in a new way—a living testimony of how God’s hands can turn brokenness into beauty.

So if you find yourself cracked, fragmented, or shattered, remember this: you are not ruined—you are ready. Ready to be remade by the One who sees your worth, even in pieces.

And when He heals, He heals golden.

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In creative solidarity, Dawn

32 thoughts on “More Beautiful for Having Been Broken ©️Dawn Minott”

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    1. Hey there my dear Kym!!!! It’s truly a beautiful restorative concept—the restored thing or person is of greater value than the original thing or the unhealed person.

      Happy weekend Queen. Enjoy every moment of it. 💕🤗💕

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