why wouldn't he do the same for ours? "Glorious imperfection"!
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is healed not to the original perfection but to glorious imperfection? It is one thing to find glory in Christ wounds, but what about in our wounds?" What, indeed, does Christ see as glory? What is the final glory he is intending for me, for you? Of course, if he chose to keep his own wounds, 4/

I have indeed meditated on the beauty of Christ's glorious wounds and that he chose to keep them in his glorified body, but what actually stopped me in my reading was his footnote on that section. Think about this: "[W]hat if our brokenness, through Christ's wounds, 3/

(See pinned article in my profile for more info.) In this book, Mako, in writing again about the art of kintsugi, speaks about the value of our woundedness: "Wounds, whether they be those of an urushi tree or those of Christ, are portals into the miraculous sacrifice that leads to beauty." 2/