It was developed in Japan in the fourteenth Century. It is called kintsugi. “Kintsugi takes broken pieces of pottery and rejoins them using a lacquer with a beautiful gold powder. The word ‘kintsugi’ literally means ‘to join with gold.’” Peter Scazzero in his book, Emotional Healthy Discipleship, makes this observation. “What makes kintsugi art so unique is that it actually emphasizes the broken pieces rather than trying to hide or disguise them, or discarding the object all together.”