The irreversible deed mis’

The irreversible deed mis’

One lesson I never got to understand in my Form one chemistry was irreversible changes in states of matter. All along I’ve thought that science is at pains to explain the irreversible changes coz I don’t think such an explanation as this holds water, ‘When you burn a candle, the wax around the wick melts. If you pour this wax off the candle, it will solidify and become wax again. This is a reversible reaction. But if you burn the candle long enough the wax disappears. The heated wax becomes a liquid, then a gas. This gas combines with oxygen from the air to make water vapour and carbon dioxide. This change is irreversible.’ What if charcoal was as different state of matter as a wooden log? The explanation would be perfect coz you cannot change charcoal back to wood. What if we’d be able to return that mchele that’s already gone bad back to its uncooked state? Those heaps of wasted food would become history and all the street urchins who eat from those bins would all die and our streets would perhaps be clean again.

Almost all Homo sapiens have deeds in their lives they wish to blot out coz they keep nagging our thoughts and devoid of God in our lives, they can sap from our lives the energy we need to face the future. Sometimes it’s that close to amorous message meant for your partner that your fingers sin against you and send to your mother or aunty. You are there wondering how to tell them it was not meant for them and if you manage, the respect is gone. Then on a Saturday afternoon, you are Google those sites and bump into one with exciting opportunities for cash and all you need to do is provide your credit card number and you do. Next time your card statement lands, you haven’t used it for shopping but your credit limit is gone and there’s a huge bill to pay. And then, a friend of mine receives a message that she has received Kes. 4,000 via M-pesa from an unknown person. The guy calls her that it was a mistake and urges her to return the money. She goes to her M-pesa account and sends the 4K but later realizes that the message she’s received was from an individual and not M-pesa. She’s been duped and is all regrets. Look here!!! He sizes that beautiful girl selling loans from the bank and he couldn’t resist her. He applies a Kes. 1,500,000. He had no plan and ever since, it’s been painful paying for what he’s already squandered.

It was one of those rare days when I service my computers and I dismantled every component from power supply, cables, fan, memories, motherboard and processor. But when I assembled and ran the machine, it did for sometime then went blank. I later realized that I had fitted the fan upside down and thus the processor had smoked up. In another of the good days, you were all alone with your friend and begun to get close and by the time you realized it, you had broken your vow and lost virginity. And after typing your ten pages document the lights go off and oh my!!! You hadn’t saved a thing and you’ll have to do it again. Then your sister is all regrets coz when she got pregnant, the man who’d pledged never to leave her just walked on her when she told him she was pregnant. And the umbrella of all, we’d rather forget and always wish those misdeeds were reversible.

But there’s one sweet irreversible, Christ died on the cross for our sins and misdeeds. God loves us, certainly. So, if we have received his pardon, we can consider what he’s done and if you still guilty you still can join in this song, ‘Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. (Psalms 103:2-5)

Shan’t all of us move in new strength?