Heritage Living | Home is the First Inheritance

Inheritance is built, it is taught, it is seen, and it is given before one item is ever provided.

In Chapter Two, Home Is Our First Inheritance, we explore this understanding of heritage living. Once it is understood that we begin to take—or, to a greater point, that we are given—parts of our home way before the house, the car, and the heirloom possessions, we begin to live life through a different lens. This is where intentional living leads the discussion into the inheritance of home, culture, traditions, and eventually possessions.

In Chapter Two, we cover about a dozen points that provide insight, as well as encouragement, to connect to or build inheritance through reflection and assessment. Our conversation is a real-time example of the recognition, reflection, and assessment needed to begin our journey—and perhaps your journey—towards the inheritance that lives beyond us.

Firstly, recognizing that we are carrying inheritance that we did not ask for is step one. This inheritance is, in fact, wealth, and beyond wealth, it is wisdom. Regardless of what you have or have not been formally given, you now have an understanding and starting point from which to connect and build.

This recognition is not about passing judgment on those before you, but a moment of acknowledgement to assess the value that inheritance holds. Once this assessment is complete, you now have guidance as to how to live moving forward. The beauty of this moment allows connection through honor, through the continuation of traditions, actions, efforts, and moments. These are the elements in which we find value and importance.

With that understanding, we now have a responsibility to protect through preserving and, above all, showing. Being the living example of the inheritance we wish to live on is perhaps the best way to communicate its value.

A word that has found itself repeating is “value,” which leads us into another point: values as inheritance.

The inheritance of traditions isn’t too difficult to conceptualize, but values may be more difficult. Family values are a crucial part of legacy. How you treat family is how you treat people, and your treatment and interactions are how you’ll be remembered. This is a part of legacy.

The legacy of values starts in the home and is inherently passed from generation to generation. This would be defined as generational legacy.

Here is a question: what personal values and legacy must your children answer for after you? How will your descendants be treated based on your remembrance? How did you treat your family, and how did your family treat others?

Family values are woven into heritage living because we understand that values are the precious guardrails to standards within and outside of the home. Yes, our home may be our universe, but beyond those gates and walls, we must connect to a world that requires respect beyond those walls.

Family values and social wealth will carry many far beyond physical and monetary assets. So we repeat: what must your descendants answer to or for in regard to the values you taught—or didn’t teach?

Before reaching our final point, we’d like to invite you to listen to or watch The Family Hall: Chapter Two here.

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Please accept this friendly reminder that these are only three points of a dozen that enlighten our home on the inheritance that the home provides.

As we conclude this reflection, it is worth mentioning the root of Chapter Two: assisting in identifying the precious things we cannot physically touch, but the wealth of inheritance that we absolutely feel.

That being said, what if the only thing you had to leave was the feeling that home created? What would you desire that feeling to be?

Is the inheritance support, compassion, nurturing, and understanding—or judgment, perfection, achievements, and disapproval?

Before we answer that, perhaps it is worth asking ourselves:

“What feelings and emotions did we fill our homes with today, and if we left our family today with those feelings, what did they inherit?”

This reflection accompanies Chapter Two, Home Is Our First Inheritance, from The Family Hall by De La Livre.

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