Broken Vessels Flint 5 2016 Mp 3
Reverend Michael F. Copado
This sermon was delivered on May 15th 2016 at Flint Unity Church in Flint, Michigan. It was the first time I preached there in over a year, a year in which several tragedies befell me. I based the sermon on the Japanese concept of Kintsukuroi or Kintsugi, the art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver, thus making something more beautiful and more valuable from something broken. I dispel several ideas that we walking a spiritual path often repeat- "That everything happens for a reason," that "God never gives us more than we can handle," "Everything happens due to God's divine plan," "This will make you stronger" and one of the founding concepts of New Thought/Unity Christianity; the idea that "thoughts held in mind manifest in kind." All of these speak of the idea of a God who tortures us for "sport" or to "hone us." Instead I posit the idea that the universe is, for whatever reason, governed by many laws, more specifically in the case, the law of Entropy, that everything breaks down, sometimes all at once. And it occurs to the good and the bad alike. And ultimately if we chose to see it that way, we can find beauty, and strength in our own brokenness.