When speaking to groups of people I always like to boldly ask the questions, “Could you try being a little nicer?” I have to admit I love the look on some of their faces when they hear the question. From where I am standing, it is as if they never expected that the very idea of being nice and being spiritual would actually go hand in hand. As I am asking the groups this questions, I am also at that very moment asking the same of myself, “Where is it that I have been short with someone, was I rude, feeling fearful, and may have come across aloof? People are always asking me if I try to apply what I speak about to my own life? That always makes me laugh. I think to myself, “If you only knew.”

I am always the first to beat myself up for supposedly not honouring the very things I say I represent. As spiritual individuals, we are not always going to be in the flow of Spirit. We are not always going to have days where we are happy and chanting that life is oh so good. And that truly, is okay. Truth is, there are good and not so good days. What we have to do is to allow ourselves room to feel and experience the day-to-day events we find ourselves in. Life is continually offering us new opportunities for growth and ways to seek and find our bliss.

When I spoke at the Unlimited Horizons first annual “Metaphysical Festival” I was moved by just how wonderful my life’s spiritual quest has been. It has not been an easy road to travel, but it has been a journey I can reflect on and see how much I have gained from those infamous good times and the not so good. I realise that I have to keep following that inner voice that nudges me to keep moving forward, the voice that when I’m feeling I can’t go on, reassures me I can make it.

I am reminded to be just a little bit nicer to everyone who stands before me, even when it feels there is not a drop of niceness in me left to give, to smile when someone is frowning, to reach out and hold someone when they are hurting. There is a prayer I have always loved, it reads:

I am here only to be truly helpful.

I am here to represent him who sent me.

I do not have to worry about what to say or do, Because he who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever he wishes, Knowing he goes there with me.

I will be healed as I let him teach me to heal.

Those few words speak volumes. So be just a little bit nicer, be good to others, be good to yourself, and keep spreading “The Light.”