Still about

I have neglected writing this blog for four months. I seem to write when I am mad about something or wish to vent my spleen. Thankfully I haven't mainly because I am too lazy. There is plenty to grumble about yet I just cannot get the motivation to actually compose something. I read very few blogs. One I regularly follow is Lisa King's. She writes sincerely from the heart about the dramatic changes in her family's life,following the death of her son Noah and the untimely and unexpected death of her husband , Aaron four months later. Then today I read a news article from a Fairfax website about the new phenomenon called "Mummy"bloggers. Apparently there are hundreds of women writing blogs about everyday happenings, building up a wide audience. Apparently marketing and advertising people have woken up to this and offering $$$ to bloggers to write glowing mentions of products. Yuck! These advertorials are a turnoff for me and avoid them. I believe that one or two celebrities were caught out endorsing a well-known holiday destination for cash and it transpires that neither has been there. Robin L. Harwood May 29th 0505 UTC Norwood Tasmania

I have been inspired reading Lisa King's blog. Life has been hard for their family,losing a son and then unexpectedly four months later losing Aaron to a massive heart attack. As I live right next door to the LDS church, I was able to witness the hundreds of people who attended the funeral service.

All of us have at some time asked the question, why? Life can be so unfair. I know I have. My ex-wife had an ongoing problem with manic depression,that claimed her life in the end. To this day, I have problems facing up to it and the failure of my marriage. Yes I am a Christian but still I have questions why. We all make choices that we later regret. We can't go back and alter them.
We should learn from our mistakes but human beings can be so stubborn at times. I am not perfect, no human being is. That is why God sent his only begotten Son into the World two millennia ago. As Scripture says.Php 4:13 Christ gives me the strength to face anything. ( Contemporary English version).

In Ephesians , Paul writes this :Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
Eph 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
Eph 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (English Standard Version).

Always remember this promise from Romans.
Rom 8:28 We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. These are the people God chose, because that was his plan.

Robin L. Harwood

0113 UTC February 6th 2012.

My first Blog for 2012!

I just realised it a very long time since I contributed an updated blog. My life has dramatically changed since then. 12 months ago I was caught in a bureaucratic tussle between two state government departments with neither preparing to budge. Fortunately it took the intervention of a third party to sort out the mess and now it is easier for me with several aids to assist my rapidly disappearing mobility. Walking now is a luxury as I now depend on a manual wheelchair just to get about my unit.

I am now an aged pensioner and also get assistance around the unit several times a week. My hearing difficulty is still present but the episodes are not as prolonged. When they occur, it leaves me almost totally deaf. It is very frustrating especially as I compile a monthly column on short-wave radio. Naturally I have become a grumpy individual at times as there is nothing I can really do about the changes in my body caused by ageing.

Robin L. Harwood
Norwood, Tasmania 7250
0310 UTC February 5 2012.