Warm greetings, dear Friend!
Wherever you are on this beautiful planet and in your journey,
may you be well and happy. 🙏🏻

In December’s newsletter, I mentioned that I’d like us to share “tools” / (spiritual) practices with each other this year that help us to access JOY (my word/theme for 2025).

In January, I wrote about SILENCE.
In February, I wrote about SPACE.
In March, I wrote about SIMPLICITY.

This month, the tool/practice that I’d like to share with you is BELONGING.

Please take a moment and think of all of the groups of people to which you belong or have belonged – your family, your co-workers, your neighbours, your faith-based community, your city, your country, to name just a few. Can you see how belonging to every one of your groups has helped to shape you into the person that you are today, and that your presence in those groups has done the same for many people in return? (I’m reminded of two of the final moments in the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”: the first, when George’s brother Harry says, “A toast to my big brother George: the richest man in town”; the second, the inscription in the copy of Tom Sawyer that Clarence the angel leaves behind for George: “Remember, George; no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings!”)

My invitation to you this month is to celebrate your sense of BELONGING with everyone and everything in your life and to let me know what unfolds. I promise to do the same, and I wish you JOY with the process!

In keeping with this month’s theme of BELONGING, I offer you one of my songs and one of my chants/songs for the soul: Little By Little and We Belong To Each Other. May they serve you well!

How about YOU, dear Friend? Does this month’s theme resonate with you? What “tools” / (spiritual) practices would YOU like to share this month? WHEREVER you are on your journey, I would love to hear from you. Please e-mail me; we’re all in this together, and we have much to learn from each other. 

(THANKS for being a part of my journey, and SPECIAL THANKS to the kind souls who respond to my newsletters [this month: Mark B] – reading your comments is always a highlight of my month.)

And, as always…
You can listen to my songs and chants here and here.
You can find the words to my songs and chants here.
You can buy my CDs here – ***AND NOW, ON bandcamp TOO!***

UPCOMING AND ONGOING EVENTS

I’m blessed with many opportunities to share my words and music; I perform as a solo artist for many churches in both Canada and the U.S. (in person and online), at local “kirtans” (chanting evenings), and at many local retirement homes. I also perform in many local musical groups. 

For more detailed information on any of my performances, please click on any date in my online calendar. And if I can serve YOU in any way with my words and music, please know that it would be my great pleasure to do so! 

All of my music can be enjoyed any time on my YouTube channel, and I would really appreciate it if you were to visit it and then click on “Subscribe”. (And if you’re a Facebook user, I would really appreciate it if you were to “Like” my Fan Page and then click on “Following”.) Thanks so much!

***A SPECIAL INVITATION***: I’LL BE WALKING MY THIRD CAMINO MAY 27-JUNE 19 (the [Litoral] Portuguese route, and then on to Finisterre and Muxia). My intention is to make my journey a walking meditation. IN KEEPING WITH THIS MONTH’S THEME OF BELONGING, IF YOU’D LIKE ME TO HOLD A PERSONAL INTENTION FOR YOU AS I WALK, PLEASE E-MAIL ME WITH YOUR INTENTION ASAP!

As a very dear and wise friend in Montreal once said to me, “All I can offer you is my experience”.

My sincere desire, in every one of my newsletters, is to encourage us all to live our Big Lives one Small Step at a time.

Much love to you, dear Friend!
I bless you on your journey,
and I wish you Ease and Grace and JOY
in living your Fullest Expression.

Go with Love,
– Nathen

Nathen Aswell
Performing Songwriter / Inspirational Speaker
Encouraging people to live Big Lives one Small Step at a time
https://www.nathenaswell.com
https://nathenaswell.bandcamp.com
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(604) 618-4429