Hello ,
Colin Powell, the great American military leader, was also a life-long fixer.
According to an obituary in the New York Times:
Until his final days, Colin L. Powell remained preoccupied with fixing things. The former secretary of state and four-star general tinkered endlessly in his garage — sometimes with his welder and sometimes on a succession of [automobiles].
He was a regular at the neighborhood hardware store in McLean, Va., where he rummaged through parts for his house’s malfunctioning dishwasher or leaky faucets.
His plywood-and-wire fixes often left something to be desired aesthetically. But they satisfied his … compulsion to
repair rather than discard what was broken. When he was fixing things, one longtime friend said, “there was a result at the end of the day. It’s why he was so happy as an Army officer: You take a platoon, and you make it better.”
But there were some things he couldn’t fix. In 2019, he was diagnosed with plasma-cell cancer. He died in October 2021. He also admitted
that were a lot of things broken in this world that neither he nor the United States could fix.
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive
you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:1-3
A "fix" is coming to planet earth, but it won't be brought about by human hands.
Have a great day and God bless!
Pastor Mike / The Open Word
