A thought runs through us, through generations, and through time. Something better. When you drill deep down, through layers of stress, and making a living, you come to a raw and universal want that people have for themselves, and parents have for their children.

Something better.

This is not encapsulated in time, or a cultural script. It is something deeper than DNA, rippling within the womb of consciousness. Something better. The force and source giving birth to evolution, to life enfolding and unfolding. The whisper or call speaks from the field of potential, through intuition and asks that you listen. That something better is not a thing. It’s a living process.

Sometimes we mistake something better for the material or what’s out there. “If only we had more…” But something better is always within, and always about becoming. It’s not a race, not a comparison, not a purchase. It’s acknowledging that the Divine intelligence in the universe has allowed us to be conscious of more and more. Just as the universe expands, so can we.

As a father, nothing gives me more of a sense of wonder, awe, and gratitude that my sons heard “something better” as the thread through our ancestry and beyond. Their stories are nothing like mine or their mother’s, yet they have come from this source through an even greater Source. They are nothing like us, except the values we share, what we have faith in and hope for, and the love we give. Their paths are their own…

And I’m grateful and in awe of that as well…

photo credit: J. Plenio