Innerwords Newsletter: A New Year Of Acceptance

Of life, love, peace, and joy. There's no one to blame if we miss out on the light-filled path of all that is good, true and beautiful. We were created to live a life of continuous celebration, and 2013 is the year to spread the cheer, applaud the wonders, and salute ourselves as members of the Divine Royal Family.

Have I gone a bit too far with this? I don't think so. The power of choice is one of our precious Gifts, so join me this year in choosing only days filled with divine order, love, forgiveness, playfulness, abundance and every other good thing we can think of.

Remember that when we are in tune with our own Authority, we know that Spirit is totally responsible for our life. Nothing is more important than realizing the Presence of God within.

What it all boils down to is a conscious acceptance of our good, saying Yes! to the Givingness of God. All that Spirit is and has is being pressed upon us at every moment, and our responsibility is to recognize and accept this infinite Good.

Jesus gave us a key to life when he said, “It is done unto you as you believe." Belief is consciousness, consciousness constitutes our prayer, and prayers are always answered according to consciousness. As Ernest Holmes puts it, "Life will be to you what you are to It." And Emerson wrote: "We are what we think about all day long."

Let's look at the choices we are making in life. Again quoting Holmes:

"You are a spontaneous self-choosing center of Life, in the great drama of being, the great joy of becoming, the certainty of eternal expansion. You could not ask for more and more could not have been given. “(From This Thing Called You)

So isn't it time to consciously choose the fullness of life? Isn't it time to accept loving relationships, wholeness, abundance, and success in the great drama of being?

In 2013 let's taste life with a new appetite. Spirit has many special recipes for us to enjoy.

From the pen of Emerson: All life is an experiment...the more experiments you make the better...Explore and explore... To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom...nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm...Don't waste life with doubts and fears...We are the builders of our fortune...Life is a progress and not a station.

Bio: John Randolph Price is an internationally known lecturer and author of eighteen nonfiction books incorporating ancient wisdom, contemporary metaphysics and spiritual philosophy. Several of his books have been national bestsellers.

He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Radio and Television. Later in his career he was executive vice president of a Chicago advertising and public relations agency, and followed as president and CEO of a Houston-based agency. In the 1970s, Price was the recipient of several Grand Prix Awards for best consumer advertising. He also wrote and produced a series of documentary films for the U.S. Department of Energy, for which he received a special commendation for excellence.

In 1981, with the publishing of his first book, The Superbeings, he and his wife, Jan, formed The Quartus Foundation for Spiritual Research. John is chairman of the board. He has since been the keynote speaker for such organizations as the National Peace Symposium, the Sun Valley Mountain Wellness Festival, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the International New Thought Alliance, and the Center for Positive Living. Teaming with Jan, he has conducted hundreds of workshops from coast to coast on material from his books.

He and Jan were the originators of World Healing Day that began on December 31, 1986, with over 500-million participants world wide, and the event has continued each year on the same date. In recognition of this effort for peace, they were presented the Light of God Expressing Award by the Association of Unity Churches in 1986. John was also named the recipient of the 1992 Humanitarian Award presented by the International New Thought Alliance, and in 1994 he was presented the INTA's International Joseph Murphy Award for his distinguished service to the New Thought Movement and in recognition of the contribution that his books have made to positive living throughout the world.

In 2001, he was given a doctorate degree by the Emerson Institute in recognition of his work, and in 2003, the Holmes Institute conferred upon him the Doctor of Humane Letters. In 2007, he was named one of the world's 500 leading visionaries by The Visionaries Project in England. In 2009, at the 94th Annual International New Thought Alliance World Congress, Jan and John were presented The Torch Bearer Award in honor of their work in championing the principles and cause of New Thought.