# đź‘Ą Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Freedom in Forgiveness **URL:** \ **Category:** Activities\ **Created:** [December 8, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-freedom-in-forgiveness/17161 "2021-12-08T16:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 74
**Author:** ![BryWisteria](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/brywisteria/32/1632_2.png) [@BryWisteria](https://forum.spells8.com/u/BryWisteria)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-freedom-in-forgiveness/17161/74 "2021-12-14T14:54:47Z")
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](https://forum.spells8.com/t/finding-beauty-in-imperfection/7977/5) 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! 🌞 ❤ --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-freedom-in-forgiveness/17161)._