The Worshipped Woman

The Temple

Welcome home, Eloise and Tom · week seven of your devotion

This Week

Three moments arrive each week — one for her, one for him, and one for the two of you together. Open them in any order. They stay here for as long as you do.

For Eloise

The Sentence You Have Never Said Out Loud

There is one thing you want from him that you have never quite said in words. This week you find the words — and you say them to him on Sunday night, with the candle lit.

Open It
For Tom

Seeing Her Across The Room

Three times this week, in an ordinary moment, stop and look at her the way you did the first time. Then tell her one true thing you saw. Write here what she did with her face.

Open It
For The Two Of You

Sunday Night, The Candle

Sit knee to knee. She says the sentence. He listens without answering until she is finished. Then he tells her what he saw this week. Then you write one line each, here, before you go to bed.

Open It Together

What You Have Written

Every line you have written here is kept — hers, his, and the ones you wrote together. This is what you will read on your anniversary, and in ten years.

Eloise · week six

“I did not know I was waiting for him to ask until he asked.”

Tom · week six

“She laughed at the table and I realised I had stopped noticing that laugh years ago. I am not going to stop again.”

Together · week five, the candle

“We agreed: Sunday is ours. Nobody else gets it.”

Handed Back To You

The Temple gives you back what you said, when it matters. On the morning of your anniversary. On the week you first wrote it, a year on. On a day it thinks you might need it.

A year ago this week

“Something so beautifully and consciously created that you may not yet imagine it’s possible.” — you read this on your first night here. Read it again now.

Your Temple

A drawing, not the thing yet — the names, the weeks and every line on it are stand-ins so the shape can be seen. Paige writes the real moments in her own back end; Aunt Tea builds the instrument under it.