fixitman

Saint Paul, Minnesota Chapter

"We Need Not Walk Alone"

THE FIX-IT MAN
Being a “jack of all trades and master of none” all my life, our children thought I could fix anything that they broke. I myself thought that anything that was made could be fixed, and maybe even fixed better than when it was new. Many times one of our children would bring me something that had broken, thought they didn’t know how it got broken, and asked me if I could please fix it. Most of the time, I would attempt to fix whatever it was, and one way or another, I would succeed.

Then one day, something “broke” that I never will be able to fix. One of our children died. This time, the something that broke, I could not fix. There are no tools to bring a dead child back to life.

All I can think and wonder is, how and why did I end up with something I cannot fix? Since that time, it is hard for me to fix something that breaks. It brings to mind the one big thing I will never be able to fix, the death of our child.

Bill Krieglestein, TCF, Fox Valley

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