Mental Health Mindfulness on Family Relationships
By Sher Graham
It is important to take one day at a time, one hour at a time. Sometimes it is all that we have. On March 6, my brother passed suddenly from a heart attack at age 69. Life comes and goes when God or a higher power needs you. As I was the last family member to find out, as other cousins knew the day it happened, I received the call 27 hours late. Family dynamics are not always ‘hunky dory’; my family relationships were tolerable. Yet, that incident has forced me to make sure I cried and grieved, even though at the time I told friends I was ok that it was between him and God. Despite that emotion, it was an AHA moment for me. I don’t want a sad heart. I want to be happy again.
So, here are my words of wisdom..
- Be in gratitude you were chosen to be alive on the Earth.
- Every morning I wake up and say “I’m still alive, a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.” Jim Carrey
- If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” JM Power
- Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. Richard Whately
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am heart calm. Sher Graham
