Beauty in brokenness
Kintsugi is another beautiful Japanese practice. When a pot breaks, Japanese tradition is to repair the pottery with a special gold-colored adhesive that accentuates the brokenness of the pot. The damage is accepted and highlighted to become a part of the pot’s new identity.
There is probably a lot we westerners can learn about accepting our own flaws from the practice of kintsugi.
Changes to Whatsup Wednesday: Monthly Summaries
My brother-in-law gave me the genius idea of offering up summaries of the past month of Whatsup Wednesdays. Just in case you missed a week or two, you can easily catch up with a summary of the past month.
I’m rolling it out this week–let me know what you think! You can check it out at the bottom of this email. If like it, or you don’t like it, or you think of a way I could improve it, let me know!
Hope for the People of Guatemala
In May, my church will send a team of missionaries to a remote area of Guatemala where the people live with very little and not much of an economy. I am happy to be part of this team.
If you haven’t read yet about my last trip to Guatemala, you can read it here and see a photo of me and Melvin. The people we will help this year are children in an orphanage and the “Basurero” people who scavenge trash for things to sell.
If it touches your heart at the thought of bringing food, medical supplies and the Word of God to these people who have nothing, consider supporting our mission. This will lighten the financial burden on our team members and allow us to designate more funds for buying food in-country. And for those who’ve already given, a big huge mega THANK-YOU!
Clickbait: The terrorist who became a spy
Aimen Dean is a Saudi-born man who was recruited as a teenager into the Islamic jihad and ended up training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, learning to make poisons and bombs. Eventually, he became jaded and lost his belief in the idea of killing people for his religion and he went to Britain’s MI6 with all his intel. His story is unbelievable.
Have a listen on the Jordan Harbinger podcast. (That’s Part 1, so make sure you catch Part 2 as well.)
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