I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind.
Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
In Japanese culture, there is an artform called "Kintsukuroi," which means "golden repair." When something is broken, fractured, or cracked, the spaces are filled with gold. It becomes part of the story of the object.
God's covenant with humans in Genesis is like gold in our fractured souls. We carry his covenant, his promise, like shining bits of gold in the most broken and hurting parts of us. If we learn to see and honor the beauty in our own imperfections then hopefully we can learn to see the same in our sisters and brothers. We are all beautifully cracked, flawed, and imperfect, which allows room for the divine to shine through us. When we honor the divine in everyone then we cannot sit idly by while the divine suffers of hunger, or at the hands of brutality, or on the sacred grounds of Standing Rock.
The divine in me honors and gives thanks for the divine in you.
The divine in me honors and gives thanks for the divine in you.
Namaste.
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