Through a Glass Darkly: Volume IV Issue 1 "Out of the Darkness"

K I N T S U G I

Eniola Awodiya

Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), noun - the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.1

About the fall and every one I’ve made since, about the cost of my sin and everything my God does to pay it. Over and over again. To encourage you that there is no depth, cavern or mistake too great to separate You from His love. And to remind you of the Nature of Our God, whose mercy makes all things beautiful.

My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13 NIV

The Potter’s hands they formed me While I was in the womb He knew me Perfect and whole I created thee Very good I saw my creation and declared ye Together, with My Maker I rested In the depth of His glory The presence of His power He walked amongst me Unity, As one like Him, I was called to be

Yet from those great heights I fell Dizzying, overwhelming and shattering Splattering shards of pride and lust Enough to sever Everlasting Even this cord of three plus one?

Cut off from your glory From the life to which you had called me I said my God I am sorry You said my love, let Me write your story

With nail pierced hands and a tear stained face My King hands me His crown of thorns With the gold of His eternal circlet Molten down for my cracks to adorn His beauty stands in what was once broken His love drowns out my shame And The Potter’s hands hold what is formed and now able again to contain

In my cracks is where His strength is seen In my weakness look out for His beauty See me now The Potter’s creation Living water held secure within me

Eniola is a 4th year Medicine student at Green Templeton College. When she’s not at the track or busy convincing people to join OUAC, she can be found napping, nerding out about medicine, or more recently, brushing up on some rusty piano skills.