Faith

Faith Does Not Arrive Fully Grown. It Is Planted. Tended. And Given the Time It Needs to Become Something Beautiful.

The Faith Necklace is a luminous, living, deeply encouraging piece that carries one of the most important and most personally sustaining reminders in the spiritual life: that faith grows over time — not the faith that arrives complete and certain and fully formed, but the faith that begins as something small and tender and is tended, day after day, with the particular, patient, completely genuine care of someone who trusts that what is planted will bloom, even when the blooming is not yet visible. Rich purple, soft pink, bright green, and clear blue beads come together around a vase and flowers charm at approximately 18 inches in a palette as alive, luminous, and completely beautiful as a faith that has been faithfully tended and has grown into something genuinely, completely extraordinary. Available in an approximately 18 in length.

Design & Materials

• Vase and flowers charm — the most perfectly chosen symbol for a faith that grows over time; the vase that holds the water — the particular, faithful, completely necessary provision that makes the growing possible — and the flowers that grow in it, each one a reminder that the most beautiful things in the world do not arrive fully formed but are grown, slowly and faithfully, from something small and tender into something that fills the room with its color and its fragrance and its completely, magnificently alive beauty
• Purple beads — for the depth and richness of a faith that has grown into something genuinely regal; the deep, luminous purple of a faith that has been tended through the long seasons of doubt and difficulty and has emerged, every time, more rooted and more completely, beautifully itself — the particular, deep purple of a faith that is not shallow or situational but has gone all the way down and found something real
• Pink beads — for the tenderness and warmth of a faith that is still growing; the soft, warm pink of a faith that is gentle with itself in the growing — that does not demand to be fully formed before it is allowed to be real, but trusts the process and the Gardener and the particular, unhurried pace of something that is growing exactly as it was meant to grow
• Green beads — for the life and growth that are the most visible signs of a faith that is being faithfully tended; the bright, living green of a faith that is always reaching, always growing, always becoming more completely and more beautifully itself — the particular, vivid green of something that is so completely alive that it cannot help but grow
• Blue beads — for the openness and depth of a faith that reaches toward heaven; the clear, wide blue of a faith that is always, in some essential way, oriented upward — reaching toward the light the way the flower reaches toward the sun, with the particular, faithful, completely natural trust of something that knows, without being able to explain how it knows, that the light is there and that growing toward it is the most completely right thing it can do
• Approximate length: ~18 in
• Handcrafted with care by Amelia Heir Art Designs

The Meaning Behind It

Faith grows over time — it is one of the most important and most personally encouraging truths in the spiritual life, because it is the truth that gives permission to be exactly where you are. The faith that is small does not need to apologize for being small; it needs to be tended. The faith that is uncertain does not need to perform certainty; it needs to be honest and patient and willing to keep showing up, day after day, in the particular, faithful, completely genuine way of someone who trusts that the growing is happening even when it is not yet visible. The mustard seed does not look like a tree. The bulb does not look like a flower. And the small, tender, sometimes uncertain faith of someone who is still in the early seasons of their spiritual life does not look like the deep, rooted, magnificently alive faith of someone who has been tending it for decades — but it is the same faith, in an earlier season, and it will grow. It always grows, when it is tended. Faith is a necklace for those people — the ones whose faith is growing, in whatever season they are in — and for everyone who loves them and wants them to know, in the most personal and most encouraging way, that the growing is real, the Gardener is faithful, and the most beautiful blooming is still ahead.

A perfect gift for spring, summer, or any season that calls for encouraging someone whose faith — tender, growing, and completely their own — is becoming, day by day and season by season, something more rooted, more alive, and more completely, beautifully extraordinary than it has ever been before.