Warm greetings, dear Friend!
Wherever you are in the world,
and wherever you are 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.
In April, I wrote about BELONGING.

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

In the last month, I’ve often been inspired by the words of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Here are some of his words about SERVICE:

“We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world – but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent – how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?”

My sincere wish for each and every one of us is that we love and SERVE everyone around us, as well as ourselves, with Joy – and that may we be guided in doing so with more and more Ease and Grace. 

In keeping with this month’s theme of SERVICE, I offer you a BRAND NEW (!) Song For The Soul (chant) of mine: Here I Am. May it 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, Suzanne and Dorothy] – 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 chanting events, 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 deepen my mindfulness practice as I walk. IN KEEPING WITH THIS MONTH’S THEME OF SERVICE, 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