Daily Signet

Flowing in you is the blood of ancestors who survived and even figured out how to thrive in all sorts of unimaginable circumstances.  Feel your biological inheritance. You had two parents, each had two parents, each had two parents and so on; thousands and thousands of people, back as far as time. In an unbroken line to you, your people survived flood, famine, drought, pestilence and plague. In an unbroken line to you, your people survived war, starvation, pogrom, pillage, torture, disease and slavery. In an unbroken line to you, your people did those same things to others. In that unbroken line to you, your people survived long enough to beget those who begot you. And your people passed on to you an inheritance of great power, determination, endurance, resilience and courage.

Beating in you also is the mind, heart and spirit of people who survived and thrived in all sorts of unimaginable circumstances.  Feel the inheritance of your spirit; from your physical ancestors and from all the other people who fed the minds and hearts and spirits of strangers, who helped your ancestors rise out of the ashes of countless disasters, who kept alive a chain of potential greatness—to you. Those also are your true ancestors; that also is the legacy of ‘your people.’  

Your inheritance—your body, mind, heart and spirit—has poured through countless lives and surges in every fiber of you. Your sacred task and opportunity on earth—in the face of the disasters that fall on all people—is to be undaunted, to survive, to thrive—to live your potential greatness.    

Benjamin Leichtling