Some problems need perspective more than they need an immediate solution. The need to get away is never really about running. It isn’t about kilometres or destinations marked on a map. It is about creating space within myself. A quiet stepping back. A loosening of expectations. A longing to breathe differently — slower, deeper —…
Tag: restoration
Escape
Sometimes the best way to keep going is to stop for a while. The tougher life becomes, the more I find myself daydreaming of escape. The dictionary tells me that escape means “to get free from something”, and there are days when that definition feels almost painfully simple. If only getting free were as easy…
Kintsugi
God does not waste our brokenness; if we allow Him, He can tenderly transform it into wisdom, compassion and beauty. Kintsugi is a 15th-century Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. The word comes from kin, meaning gold, and tsugi, meaning joinery — to join with gold. The more I think about it, the…
