18. Restoring Lives Through God's Love & Justice Work: Haejin Shim Fujimura

The Japanese art of Kintsugi has been around for centuries. As earthquakes frequently rocked Japan, tea masters found that lining the cracks with gold not only mended the pieces, it made them more beautiful and more valuable than the originals. Lawyer Haejin Shim Fujimura reminds us that God's love mends His children the same way. Haejin shares her work as an advocate for the oppressed, particularly with women and children living in poverty in India, and shows that fighting for the wellbeing of the oppressed aligns with God's vision for our lives.

Quotes "We really wanted to intervene on behalf of these children because without an intervention, they really don't have any hope for the future. So our goal is to ultimately protect these children so that human trafficking can be prevented, the exploitation of intergenerational violence can be stopped." —Haejin Shim Fujimura

"We wanted to bring the breath of life into the lives of these little embers who are dying flames. And we can share that breath that we receive from the Holy Spirit, from Jesus, with these children so that they can also become a flame." —Haejin Shim Fujimura

"If you can imagine a pottery that has been fractured, but now it's mended and it's beautifully colored and decorated with gold, now you can see the fracture, but you don't see it as something ugly or something terrible. But you see it as something that has become beautiful because this pottery has so much value and now has a new life and it looks different from the original." —Haejin Shim Fujimura

"We ask God to help us love our neighbors as ourselves. And that includes all of these people that God brings to our life together. So I think that is the undergirding, the very basic principle that informs all the decisions that I make about my work and all the things that I do." —Haejin Shim Fujimura

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