A Kintsugi Faith – A Kintsugi Life

Returning (again and again)

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith March 13, 2019May 30, 2026lessons, meditation, prayer, spiral

The practice of contemplative prayer is teaching me how much of life is actually a practice of returning to what matters most over and over again. This insight has been a beautiful and unexpected gift. Where would you benefit from gently returning in some way to what matters most in your life?

Returning to dust

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith March 6, 2019May 30, 2026ashes, brokenness, death, healing, hope, Lent, practice, resurrection, seasons

hand surrounded by cloud of dust against black background

Ash Wednesday and Lent may seem like a gloomy season, but they can also be a beautiful practice to prepare for the inevitable places of brokenness that come our way to show us that there’s always hope for healing and resurrection. Today’s post shares why I’ve come to treasure this season.

My Christmas wish for you

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith December 19, 2018May 30, 2026Christmas, Divine

Nativity scene with white figures on black background

This is my counter-cultural Christmas wish for you—one that’s better suited to those of us that have walked through life’s broken places and have the kintsugi scars to show for it.

Our wounds as thin places

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith October 31, 2018May 30, 2026Divine, fear, wounds

sunbeam shining on wooden pew in old church

At Halloween/Samhain/Allhallowtide, we observe a time of the thinning of the veils between our everyday reality and the spirit realms. Similarly, our wounds can function as thin places in the veils both on the “trick” side and on the “treat” side. How might seeing your wounds as thin places change the way you respond to them?

Practices of opening to grace

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith October 3, 2018May 30, 2026beauty, Divine, grace, mindfulness, practice, prayer, spirit

a small plant growing in a post held in the palm of a Buddha statue

Our spiritual practices can often seem like added chores on our to-do lists, but they are actually practice in opening to grace and the voice of Spirit that can sustain in life’s ordinary times as well as in life’s most broken places.

Developing a kintsugi faith

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith March 15, 2017May 30, 2026belief, faith, kintsugi, kintsukuroi

Kintsugi (kintsukuroi) blue banded agate cross pendant with gold repair on black cotton cord

Whether we are religious-minded people or not, we all have faith in certain beliefs that form the bedrock foundation of our lives, even when we aren’t fully conscious of them. Most of us inevitably face a time, however, when those beliefs are challenged, and that foundation begins to crumble underneath us. How do we deal with these moments when our faith is shattered? How do we put our faith back together again when the beliefs that formed it are no longer things that we can believe?

What if you knew you were loved?

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith September 10, 2014May 30, 2026Divine, fear, love, relationships, transformation

What if you knew without a shadow of a doubt deep down in your bones that you were loved? It would change everything, wouldn’t it? I know it would for me.

An inside job

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith May 14, 2014May 30, 2026Divine, faith, journey, longing, transformation

My longing for the Divine has never been trying to lead me anywhere except within to find that I had never been separated from the One whom I sought.

The breath of life

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith February 24, 2014May 30, 2026body, breath, Divine, mystic, prayer, spirituality

What if every breath is a prayer? A wordless, undemanding, formless prayer that keeps us connected to that which is Divine as it keeps us connected to life. What if the Divine is as close as our next breath?

Kenetha A Kintsugi Faith January 17, 2014May 30, 2026Divine, faith, mystic, relationships

As my experience with the Divine has grown deeper over the years, it’s become harder and harder to adequately define in words both the relationship and the One I’m in relationship with. Laying down that burden gives me more energy for the adventure of seeking the More where it will be found.

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