Where Are You Broken?
2021년 10월 24일Where Are You Broken?
<Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time>
What do you do with an ordinary ceramic bowl that breaks? In America we tend to just throw it away and buy a new one–just as fragile and just as ordinary. But Japan has developed an art form called Kintsugi, or “binding with gold.” They repair the broken bowl by reconnecting the broken pieces with molten gold. By doing this they transform what was once broken and therefore useless into a rare and beautiful piece of art.
Each of us is broken in different ways. Each of us have our own wounds. Instead of hiding these, if we offer them to the Lord he will put us back together and create a masterpiece. In today’s gospel, Bartimaeus, the blind man, refuses to be silent when he hears that Jesus is passing by. The disciples want him to be quiet. They want him to be ashamed and hide his disability. But he cries out all the more to Jesus, who hears and heals him. And what does he do in response? He follows Jesus on his way. To where? To Jerusalem. To the cross. To crucifixion and resurrection. In a word, he becomes a disciple. Today we are invited to offer our brokenness to God. And when God accepts and heals our wounds, in gratitude we too must follow Jesus in service to others.