There was a time when people believed the world was flat. There was a time when I believed that God was outside of me—that He was where I could find Him. I would implore, “Heavenly Father, please…” You fill in the blank.

There was a time when people feared they would fall off the edge, believing the horizon was a boundary. There was a time when I didn’t realize that everything was within me. It might have been too frightening to take responsibility for everything happening in my life. Truly… I didn’t even realize I was thinking negative thoughts. I simply thought aimlessly. My thoughts became a boundary to a greater life.

However, the day came when something changed. Something stirred within me—a calling. The horizon of my thinking was not an edge, but an invitation to a greater way of being. It didn’t begin consciously. It began with a discontent for where I was. It began when the idea of the horizon as a boundary simply didn’t make sense anymore.

Thoughts like “I can’t,” or “It’s too late,” or “This or that has to change first,” just didn’t make sense anymore. Something within me began to feel my own limitlessness. However, in order to cross this new horizon, I would have to let go of everything. As the André Gide quote reminds us:
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

It was uncomfortable. It was unknown. But it is in the unknown that all possibility lives. Is it possible that what we think is fact is merely an unchallenged belief?

Then I learned something that made perfect sense:
There is only one Life. That Life is God’s Life. That Life is perfect. That Life is my life now.

In this one affirmation, I was able to cross the horizon of my limiting beliefs. You see, if my life is God’s life and there is no separation, then what couldn’t be possible? The Universe responds to me as I respond to it. It’s called the Law of Correspondence, and this Law became the ship that carried me across the boundary of my perceived separation from the Creative Force.

So here I am now—ready to cross another horizon. I do not know what lies beyond that seeming barrier. Again, it is my discontent that urges me forward. I sat with that discontent, looking at the distant shore, and my little girl whispered in my ear:
“Passion… Passion—that is your ship.”

Living with passion is most definitely one of the keynotes of my life. When I reflect back, I see that it is passion for what I am doing that sustains me, engages me, and allows me to expand. But what I know now is this: passion is not found somewhere outside of me—it is activated.

It can be activated in even the most seemingly meaningless task—like scrubbing a floor. And yes, I scrub floors. I clean. And I can keep my passion alive no matter what I am doing—my passion for nothing more than Life itself, the Life that lives and breathes me.

Passion is not about what you’re doing; it’s about how you are being.
I don’t chase passion—I awaken it, I choose it, and I live it now.

What we focus on grows, and the horizon shifts as consciousness shifts.

A horizon is not a boundary or something to fear, but something that moves as you move. The question becomes: What am I willing to let go of… to discover my new ocean?

What I know is this: beyond every horizon is not uncertainty… it is the next expression of who you are meant to become.

Rev. Dr. Rita Andriello-Feren

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