Posted on 06/23/2014 6:02:08 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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Read: Romans 6:1-14
While visiting the charming Cotswold area of England, I purchased some bone china mugs as souvenirs. I used them carefully, but eventually one fell into the sink and shattered. I thought about that mug recently when I learned about the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
Usually when something breaks we are happy to repair it enough to make it functional again. But several hundred years ago, a Japanese artist decided he would make broken china beautiful. So he started using golden resin to hold the fragments together. Pieces repaired by using his method have intricate veins of gold.
Early in the human story, sin entered the world (Gen. 3). Theologians refer to the event as the fall. The inevitable result is brokenness. Life is painful because we keep getting hurt and hurting others with our sharp, jagged edges. But God doesnt want us to stay broken, and His repair work turns our brokenness into beauty.
Like a Kintsugi artist, God repairs us. But He uses something more precious than goldthe blood of His Son. Instead of having veins of gold, we are united by the very veins of Christ. We have been united together in the likeness of His death (Rom. 6:5). Nothing is more beautiful than that.
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Hi MA!
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Hi Connie!
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Ah, yes. Fort Lewis. I checked in there just before Christmas 1971, served with the 58th Signal Battalion, and left in September 1973. Great post.
Never been there, sounds nice though.
Good evening to you Publius!
Where was the 3/5? I was in Americal DIV 1/1 CAV, based at Hill 29 about 15 km N of Tam Ky.
Started and ended that trip at McChord. Audio going. I can still hear “The Wichita Lineman” playing over and over.
I think there’s a good possibility that the DC-8 we flew over in is on static display, SE corner of USC (LA for college baseball fans) across the street. There is, or was a DC-3 there too.
Thanks for your service!
Hi Sand!
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