When precious tea bowls break, the families of Japanese tea masters will often keep the broken bowls for generations and later have them mended by artisans who use a lavish technique known as Kintsugi. The Japanese word Kin means “gold,” and Tsugi means “mend,” and a bowl mended with gold is more valuable than the original tea bowl was before it broke. As we move from fall to redemption and into new creation, God is mending our brokenness and making us more valuable than we were.