For one of us to be born, it took:

2 parents

4 grandparents

8 great-grandparents

16 great-great-grandparents

32 third-great-grandparents

64 fourth-great-grandparents

128 fifth-great-grandparents

256 sixth-great-grandparents

512 seventh-great-grandparents

1,024 eighth-great-grandparents

2,048 ninth-great-grandparents

In only the last 11 generations, that's 4,094 ancestors—roughly within the 300 years before you or I were born!

Pause for a moment and think…

Where did each of them come from?

How many battles did they fight?

How much hunger did they endure?

How many wars did they see?

How many hardships did our ancestors survive?

And also, how much love, strength, joy, and encouragement did they pass down to us?

How much of their will to survive did each one leave inside us, allowing us to live today?

We are here only because of everything they went through.❤️