Apostle Bracelet - Untangled

Peterhead, 1934. Isobel MacLeod learned quiet devotion through the rhythms of sea and husband. In Peterhead, mornings smelled of salt and coal as she prepared tea before he went to fish. The sugar tongs lay beside the bowl, their apostles named St Ciaran and St Ninian, facing away as if one watched the shoreline, the other the horizon. Isobel lifted a cube carefully, listening to the soft clink against porcelain. Her heart steadied with the ritual. When he returned, tired but smiling, she poured the tea she had prepared with care. When the tongs were later made into a bracelet, Isobel wore it always. The iron reminded her that love is found in constancy, in welcoming home the one who braves the storms, and in the quiet joy of being steady at the hearth.