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Mediocrity for the Win

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

Good Enough, 161-166 Psalm 19

“The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). The glory of creation is supposedly everywhere, but these days, it may be hard to notice even one lovely created thing. When was the last time beauty stopped you in your tracks? Describe what you experienced.

“The perfection that we can never achieve, but that has been lavishly given” (Good Enough, 165). Kintsugi is a Japanese art form where broken pottery is repaired with gold, rendering
it beautiful in a new way, not in spite of its cracks, but because of them. Are there imperfections, cracked and broken places, that have been for you a source of discouragement or shame? Look long, that God’s restoring love “that reaches to the heavens” might touch you even there.

God, I bring to You my whole self, opening to Your loving eyes all that I am–Your creature, made in love, for love. May Your gaze upon me be the gold that heals me, and infuses all the cracked and broken places with Your beauty and strength. Soften my heart, and mold me into someone who reflects Your glory.

Amen.

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