sermons and notes posted on this blog are not necessarily what came out of my mouth during the services,
but they'll offer a sense my dance with the Holy Spirit while preparing to preach

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Kintsugi restoration as metaphor for moral resiliency

“Kintsugi...’golden repair’... is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage [with golden adhesive]... it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

h/t to lecture on moral resilience by Cynda H. Rushton, PhD, MSN, RN (https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Resilience-Transforming-Suffering-Healthcare/dp/0190619260)



See also Bessel van der Kolk M.D.'s work on Healing of Trauma
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748