A BLOT ON YOUR SHEET

By Okechukwu Kalu

A friend of mine who possesses one talent I envy and admire – the ability to draw and craft, made a comment I find so fascinating. He said, in Arts, every mistake can add to the original design. In other words, every error is a design. It didn’t make sense to me at that time but unconsciously, my subconscious mind soaked it with meaning. Perhaps, it

may differ from the original intention of the artist which most times it does.

A new detail can be added to the design, it could add a new look or it could necessitate a new color. It cannot change the beginning or what has been done but it definitely would have a different look.

In life, certain things might happen. It might be a moment of panic, a thoughtless act, a moment of anger, a drink that led to being drunk then led to an accident which In turn resulted in someone else’s death, a fight, a lie, a murder, whatever the case might be, it left a hole in the heart, a stain to the past, a blot on your sheet. Now, all that lingers in mind are words of lament such as “had I known” or “if only”, you think you can never be complete and you also think you don’t deserve the best. You won’t ever forgive yourself; your hope of having a grand ending was ruined.

You obviously thought it was a mistake to your design, but let me ask a question – do you think that God didn’t calculate all the mistakes man would ever make? He even knew that man would take the bait, and then He finds a way to love us anyway. What makes us think God doesn’t have a plan? Man’s mistake is part of his grand design. Men are thus his work of art and he is the artist.

Allow God turn that mistake into a design, beautiful enough to be displayed as an exhibit in his art gallery with pride. Don’t make a past mistake become the center of your life’s obliteration.

I hear God say “give me our past, all soiled and blotted and I will give you a new spotless one. For, I want you to do better, my child”.

So friends, brothers, sisters, colleagues, classmates, clients, associates, loved ones, relatives, and whatever term used to describe interaction and relationship between human beings, brace up, dust and gather the broken pieces of your life and hand it over to the preeminent potter who would eventually turn it into a prodigious piece of art.

Our motto remains… upgrading Standards.

Visit http://fedricxconsult.blogspot.com to read daily articles, story series, Kirikiri news and lots more