Two days ago, I found myself walking among the graves of my ancestors. The sun filtered through the trees, casting golden light upon the earth where so many had been laid to rest. I sat beneath a tree, allowing its warmth to touch my skin, opening myself to the quiet wisdom of the place.
I came here to honor those who walked before me. To acknowledge the ones who fought, suffered, and survived so that I could stand where I am today. As I sat there, letting the light sink into my third eye, I realized something: they had laid my foundation long before I knew what I would face.
Some time ago my ancestors came to me in a vision. They handed me a foundation stone, though at the time, I didn’t understand what it meant. I see it clearly now. That foundation was emotional stability, a gift they placed in my hands because they knew what I would face before I ever did. They saw everything I was blind to, they knew everything I did not, and they prepared me for the battles ahead.
I didn’t see any of it coming. I was clueless. But they knew. And they had a list, checking it twice, seeing who was true and who was not.
That day in the cemetery, I walked among the graves, and my attention was drawn to something unusual. There were massive gravestones towering over the rest, adorned with symbols of wealth and status. Many bore the Masonic cross, enclosed in a circle, a mark of those who had built their legacy in stone.

But then, I saw one that broke me.
It was a grave for a young girl. Only twelve years old.
I stood there, staring at the carefully built memorial, feeling the weight of her family’s grief. The care they had put into honoring her. The way their love had been carved into stone, as if trying to hold onto something that time would eventually take away.
And in that moment, something hit me with undeniable force:
It doesn’t matter if you are homeless or a billionaire. It doesn’t matter if your grave is a towering monument or an unmarked stone. Love and loss feel the same in every heart. Grief does not care for wealth. Death does not recognize status. We are all the same in the end.
For all that we think we are, we are nothing but dust, passing through, just like those before us.
And yet, for all that we are dust, we are also everything.
Because even though our bodies fade, love remains.

The grief we feel is proof that something deeper than flesh and bone connects us all. It is proof that our value was never in our status, our possessions, or the weight of our names. The people who remember us don’t carry our achievements in their hearts, they carry the moments we loved them.
This is what my ancestors wanted me to understand. They built my foundation because they knew what I would face. They knew the anger and fire that would rise in me, the sexual energy that would demand mastery, the spiritual warfare that would test my very soul. And they knew that without a foundation, I could be swept away like so many before me.
But I wasn’t.
Because I took the stone they gave me and built upon it. I took what they could not finish and carried it further. I learned not just to receive wisdom, but to refine it, to take my pain, my passion, my power, and turn it into something greater.
And now, I share this truth:

We are all connected. Not by status, not by blood, not by wealth, but by the simple, undeniable fact that we are here. We live. We love. We suffer. We grieve. And in the end, the only thing that remains is the love we leave behind.
So love deeply. Be kind. Leave something behind that cannot be carved in stone, but will be felt in the hearts of those who remain.
Because in the end, love is the only thing that endures.