While reviewing everyone’s beautiful challenge entries as I gave out badges, my thoughts kept drifting back to Kintsugi. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Kintsugi is the Japanese art of giving broken things a new life.
While there is a lot more to it, one of the symbolic meanings of this practice is that broken things don’t need to be “fixed”- through a bit of work, they become something even more beautiful than they were before. (For anyone interested, there’s an old post in the forum about Kintsugi with more info and a lovely video.)
I thought this message tied in really well with the challenge this week- although forgiveness work involves examining pieces of ourselves that may seem “broken” and can be very painful, forgiveness is the golden touch that helps us to step back and see the bigger picture- helping us to see that we are indeed whole, and so much the wiser for the healing work that has been done 
I know I’ve said it probably a hundred times, but a huge congrats and thank you to everyone who joined in the challenge this week- your forgiveness work and strong hearts shine even brighter than gold! Great job! 
