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 When I was younger, I worked in Rwanda for a few months. It was a transformative experience that has permanently coloured my view of the world. The memory of African light has never left me. The red of the earth and the green of hill upon hill of palm trees (It’s not called Le Pays des Mille Collines for nothing!). The number of varieties and the variety of flavours of bananas in an otherwise limited diet. The wonder of seeing animals in the wild I’d only ever encountered in zoos. Swimming in a lake instead of taking a bath because of water restrictions. Life at a slower pace because the altitude sapped energy. Being in a minority because of my skin colour. Feeling European for the first time. Attitudes of hiding away the disabled. A family member sleeping under the hospital bed to take care of the patient’s personal needs. Now my eldest is spending some time in America and I am hoping that it will give him a similarly new perspective on life. But we don’t need to fly thou...

Kintsugi or  Kintsukuroi  is the Japanese art of mending b roken pottery with gold resin I have been amazed as I look back over the last few years of my life to see just how far  God  has brought me. Broken dreams had left my life in pieces. I  no longer believed in God and my dreams were in tatters around my feet. But 5 years later and my faith is stronger than it ever was and the broken pieces of my life are being put back together into something even more beautiful. And in the process God healed me of  food addiction and is now using me to help others suffering in that way. In the course of research for a sermon two years ago, I came across websites talking about the Japanese art of Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi. This ancient Japanese art fascinated me immediately. I knew God was  speaking  to me through it.  Kintsugi (Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art o...