Jim Fagiolo 2 October 2021 To be born, we need: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great grandparents 16 great great grandparents 32 great great grandparents 64 Penta Grandparents 128 Hexa-grandparents 256 Hepta-grandparents 512 Octa-grandparents 1024 Enea-grandparents 2048 Decaf-Grandparents Adding up the last 11 generations, we get 4 ancestors, all born about 300 years before your birth or mine. Take a moment and think: Where are you from? - How many battles have you fought? - How many times have you been hungry? How many arguments have you had? - How many vicissitudes did our ancestors survive? On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy and encouragement has left us? How much of their surviving power did each of them leave in us so that we could live today? We only exist because of everything each of them has gone through. This should all be an opportunity to honor our ancestors!
