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How To Be Made Into a Masterpiece Through Brokenness

This is a strange beauty in a broken world: Shards make art. On a sticky humid evening toward the end of one searing hot summer, I’m sitting at a table in a glorious circle of audacious friends, surrounded by blank canvases and bowls of broken glass. We’re fingering the sharp edge of things, daring to brazenly trust all that’s broken, even at this hour, can be made into a mosaic of grace.One friend leans lovely over bowls and picks out these particular shards of glass in greens and bro