Nothing Escapes Decay

      Once a year in church, I hear the reminder, 'Remember, man, that you are dust, and dust you shall return!' It's a warning about the eventual decaying of my body.
   Scientific theory coincides with this biblical warning. According to the second law of thermodynamics, 'heat and work' offset decay, but only for a while. In the end, physical things decay into different forms of matter.
   Last month a filling dropped out of my tooth. A dentist drilled the cavity and plugged it. He generated work and heat. The tooth is doing okay. But years from now that tooth, and my entire body, will disintegrate into something else.
   I noticed an abandoned home (seen in photo) while droving in South Dakota. At one time it probably housed a family of ranchers. They must have spent lots of time maintaining the property. But now it's fallen into disrepair. Eventually the prairie will consume it.
   Can the second law of thermodynamics apply to souls?
   Souls aren't physical. They can't decay like wood. They are immortal.
   But souls are tangible. It is possible they exist as energy. If that is true, then souls may indeed be affected, in part, by thermodynamics.
   Or maybe the theories of thermodynamics are not true.
  This I do believe: Souls are vulnerable to decay. Not a physical decay, a spiritual one.
  To offset this decay, we must introduce to our souls the spiritual versions of work and heat. I'm not sure what those versions are. Perhaps they're found in praying. Or from exposure to sacraments.