Precious Scars

[Barb Frison]

HaI know what you mean. So often I write something and it seems someone else is on the same track. I look forward to reading your thoughts J.D. They are always worth the read! Thanks for your ministry through your writing.

Another great post, Sylvia. I so agree with your comment that scars have their purpose in returning us to Jesus. I have a small scar on my right index finger from when I played little league baseball. I got it while playing catcher and a kid from the other team slid into home plate and gouged my finger. The scar reminds me of how Jesus saved me from my childhood and how good he has been to me ever since.

The Kintsugi technique suggests many things about the disposable nature of modern life and points to the need to find ways to cope with traumatic events in a positive way, learn from negative experiences, take the best from them and convince ourselves that it is exactly these experiences that make each person precious. In this way this art form is consistent with my commitment to approaching all things with an open mind and an attempt to illustrate the problems and possibilities of human existence.

The Titan righted herself and tested taking a few deep breaths before scanning the room. Cryomagma expelled by nearby ice volcanoes began to fall as snow through the open ceiling, slightly obscuring her view of the starry river cascading through the Milky Way. The off-white powder flurried down into the rubble and highlighted the scattered white and blue bits of Seraphite shards. Cal slung her Shotgun and began to collect them. "Can you scan for the rest of these, Winter?"

"Yeah. Need to put it back together," Cal said and brushed the crystallized solution of water and ammonia from a concrete slab, placing the recovered pieces with a surgeon's care. "It's my fault for getting caught with my helmet off."

"Of course not," Winter finally relented. "Your old wounds helped me determine what kind of person you were. You can't remember it, but the damage to your femur and vertebrae suggested you were a person who could press forward despite phenomenal pain. Your scars told me what you could do."

"What I mean is, you are more than what you survive. Your scars," the Ghost clarified, "told me you were someone who could endure. They didn't tell me how. They also didn't tell me about your morals. Your sense of humor. Your generosity. But eventually, you did."

An emotionally intense and directly communicative work, The Art of Precious Scars takes inspiration from the Japanese art of kintsugi whereby broken objects are made valuable by a precious metal which repairs but also highlights their unique breaks.

With Kintsugi, The Art Of Precious Scars British singer-songwriter Adrian Snell presents a musical trilogy with stories that weave through our often broken lives in a variety of ways, offering a glimpse of a better tomorrow through the cracks.

Five years in the making, these three albums offer the listener a beautiful, moving and inspiring musical interpretation of this unique Japanese art form, "Kintsugi", where a broken vessel is remade, using golden glue, resulting in a work of art often more beautiful than the original. And the final appearance is that of an object carrying "precious scars", integral to the appearance, and story behind it.

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"In the beginning, I lived day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. I was pleased at the end of the day, to have survived, more or less. Now I know, I am strong. Life continues, for which I am glad."

For Julia Engelhorn life divides into the Before and After.

There was a time Before, when her life was filled with the joys and struggles of parenthood, when she was run off her feet trying to take care of a seven year old and three year old twins Octavia and Maximo. And then there was a time After, when her world was encased in darkness, when there was only one child left and she had become a member of a club that no one wants to join.

On 6 April 2016 Julia went to pick up her three children from the rental home of her ex- husband Mario Deus where he had been taking care of them over the Easter holidays. Although it had been a difficult couple of years, Julia hoped that now the divorce was finalised they could get their relationship on a better and more stable footing for the sake of the children. Nothing could have prepared her for what happened that day.

On arrival to the house, Mario told her to pick up a knife because he intended to kill her. When she asked what was happening he said that the twins were dead. Julia's world shattered in that moment, she ran to the bedroom where she thought her children were asleep, only to find their lifeless bodies.

This is the story of her Before and After - a story of healing after unimaginable loss. Precious Scars is Julia's inspiring story of how she put herself back together again after being broken apart by unthinkable loss. It is about finding a way through impenetrable grief and learning to love, laugh and sing again.

"The scars I carry with me, inside me, are a reminder of what I have survived. From the broken pieces of my old self, something new was created, just as beautiful, but different."

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