I'm 73 years old, and I make these crosses to share what faith has meant to me through a long and beautiful and difficult life.
I'm 73 years old. I've buried people I loved. I've gone through seasons so dark I didn't know how I'd find my way out. And I've come through every single one of them — not because I was strong enough, but because my faith was.
I started making these crosses because I wanted other women to have what I had — something small and physical to hold onto when life asks more than you think you can give.
This isn't a business to me. It's a calling.
— Evelyn, age 73I grew up in a small town in Tennessee. My mother was a woman of deep, quiet faith — the kind that doesn't announce itself but shapes everything. She gave me my first cross when I was a young girl and told me to keep it close whenever I was afraid.
I've been afraid many times since then. I lost my husband when my children were still young. I went through an illness that made me reckon with my own mortality in ways I wasn't ready for. I've watched people I love struggle with things I couldn't fix — grief, loss, broken marriages, sick children.
"Faith isn't the absence of fear. It's the decision to keep moving anyway."
Through every one of those seasons, I came back to the same place. Back to prayer. Back to the cross. Back to the belief that I am held by something bigger than my circumstances — and that the hardest moments of my life are not the end of my story.
I started making these necklaces for the women around me who were going through hard seasons of their own. I didn't give them with a sermon. I just pressed one into their hand and said: carry this with you. Let it remind you that you are not alone. That faith is enough. That you will get through this.
The response moved me every single time. Not because of the gold or the chain — but because sometimes we need something tangible. Something we can touch. Something that says: your faith is real, your strength is real, and someone sees what you're carrying.
"I don't make these because I have all the answers. I make them because I know what it feels like to need something to hold onto."
If you found your way to this page, I believe it wasn't by accident. Whatever season you're in right now — whatever weight you're carrying — I made this for you. With love, with prayer, and with the deep hope that it reminds you of what you already know in your heart.
You have made it through hard seasons before. You will make it through this one too.
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