This poem came from the idea of the Japanese art of Kintsugi - taking broken pottery and mending it back together with glue and gold, to make it a treasure. Combining that idea with one of my favourite verses - Psalm 68:13 - and with the work of God our Heavenly Potter, and here is the result - a picture of what He is doing in the lives of His children.
Wings Of Gold And Silver
Created to be a vessel unto honour, to become so much more,
But now found broken and abandoned, shattered, forgotten on the floor.
Cracked and marred and scarred on the outside, considered worthless to the world,
But inside there is a valuable treasure, like an oyster with its pearls.
Fallen from the greatest of heights, scarred and chipped and nicked beyond all measure;
How can this damaged and broken vessel become a priceless treasure?
It’s in the eyes of the Beholder - in this case the Heavenly Potter -
Who alone can take worthless clay, and mold it into a son or daughter.
Picking up each broken piece, holding you so delicately in His care,
God won’t snuff out the smoking fire, that’s trembling and hanging on with prayer.
Dusting off the jagged shards, fitting them so carefully back together;
With wisdom as the gold dust, and love binding through the stormy weather.
The King of Heaven tenderly fills the cracks, mending every shattered part -
The gold of His divine presence filling and gluing together the broken heart.
You were a broken shard of pottery, lying still among the pieces;
Now you are a treasure bound together by the Saviour, healed gently by Jesus.
February 9th, 2026
Jerry Bouey
Psalms 68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah 18:2-6 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
