Dearly Beloved | Vol. 01

Dear Beloved,

After welcoming our fourth baby in April and navigating hospitals all summer and a new health diagnosis for our eldest, not to mention multiple ER visits for our accident-prone toddler, I decided I couldn’t remember the last time I’d written a personal note to our community we affectionately call the Beloved. This term, borrowed from scripture, is one that we use to describe the women who collect from our jewelry brand personally or have been gifted our designs because they are, indeed, loved by God and our jewelry serves as tangible reminders of God’s faithfulness in their everyday lives; reminding them of not only who they are but Whose they are.

So, Beloved, I introduce you to a new style of communication (sans drum-roll and confetti but more of a quiet and humble offering from an often times worn-thin mother of four in need of grace and daily whispers of her belovedness in Christ): an inaugural monthly mini devotional-style excerpt from me to you. Perhaps you’re in need of the truest whispers, too? Beloved, loved, loved. You are beloved.

‘Dearly Beloved’ is a letter from my studio (picture me late at night having just nursed the baby and flung out on my bed like a victoriously tired athlete crossing the finish line of her day. Alternatively, a dark early morning where the moon still reigns the skies,  an even darker cup of coffee  and a sideways yawn is also an honest context for how these musings might be born). 

You’ll notice wedding language here. That’s intentional. Perhaps the only time you’ve been addressed as “dearly beloved” was at a wedding. It’s worth noting now that,  like all of scripture,  the wedding theme runs through everything we do at Everyday Heirloom. Revelation 21:2 (printed on the inside bottom of all of our shipping boxes) is our grounding verse: “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Every design points to God’s truth and what he says about us. In a loud culture that wants a say in your identity,  we are leaning in close to the truest whispers about who we are from God himself. This is what I want to explore and live deeply into, alongside you, in the coming months. Won't you join me?

With you in Belovedness,

Hannah