This is our final story together. You will love it. Like a broken ceramic art object take all of the pieces to your stories; your family, the addictions, trauma, the betrayals, hurt, and now…include our treasure, Jesus. He was there around your family’s table, He was present in your pain guiding you to this place of healing and help. He makes all things beautiful in their time. He mends, heals, restores the broken pieces. Look at Psalm 56.8-13 “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life giving light.” Jesus knows your sorrow. He records each tear. He is healing you. If this is so, what can people do to you? So, give Him thanks for the broken pieces of your life. Walk in His presence friend. I once had a client who endured horrible abuse. She asked me, “Where was Jesus when I was being hurt?” I responded, “Dying on a cross. With you…for you…He never left you.” Now, draw another dinner table representing your life now. Are you acting out sexually? Do you feel emptiness? Addicted to porn? Draw a straight line from your current sexuality to your dinner table (arousal template). You will see 1:1 connection. Invite Jesus into your table as a 10 year old. Make amends with the personalities around that table. Invite Jesus into your current table. Ask Him to heal the broken places of your sexuality. Healing begins, here. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing demolished art pieces with precious metals. The artist holds the fragments in his hands, mends the parts carefully, and then applies pure gold, silver, or platinum powder to the repair. The philosophy of Kintsugi highlights the beauty of the broken piece. In a real way, the Maker supremely values the destroyed pieces, and as a result the art is therefore more excellent, a greater treasure. You and I are His broken treasure. He loves the precious repair of shattered lives. 金継ぎ