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We think in words, yes, but we also feel through our hands. We reach for things. We hold things. We press our fingers around something solid when the world feels like it is shifting beneath our feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is why the holding cross has comforted Christians for centuries. Not as a superstition. Not as a charm. But as a physical anchor. Something to wrap your hand around when the words of prayer have dried up, something whose shape under your thumb says what the mind cannot quite articulate: \u003cem\u003eI am held. He is here. This is real.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Olivewood Holding Cross is made by Fair to Trade craftsmen from genuine olive wood, the same species of tree that has grown in the land of the Bible for thousands of years. The olive tree shaded the Garden of Gethsemane. It was the olive branch that told Noah the flood was receding. It was olive oil that anointed kings and lit temple lamps. There is no wood on earth more saturated with the story of God's faithfulness to his people than this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach cross is individually hand-carved. No two are exactly alike. The grain of the wood, its dark streaks and warm tones, is unique to the piece in your hand, shaped by decades of growth in the soil of the Holy Land. It fits naturally into the palm, the curve of it sitting between the fingers with the kind of quiet rightness that makes you understand immediately why people have carried these for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 3.5 x 7 cm, it slides into a pocket, a hospital bag, a handbag, a bedside drawer. 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The absence of chemical treatment protects the Masasi village environment and makes the palm crosses safe this Palm Sunday and their burnt ashes safe to use on next year's Ash Wednesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoor in everything except spirit and African dwarf palm plants, the entire population of Masasi village find a role in hand-weaving Easter palm crosses from single strands of natural palm leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSourced entirely from a village in one exceptionally poor area of Southern Tanzania, Eden.co.uk's African palm crosses are woven in one piece by the men, women and children of the Masasi village. Harvested from locally grown and nurtured dwarf African palms, hand-woven crosses give the villagers a life-line income.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarming on a subsistence level, only the sale of their few surplus cashew nuts offers the villagers any hope of even the most basic levels of health care and education. 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