Honey Drop 38: The Grave as Garden

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“Supposing Him to be the gardener…” — John 20:15c

The scene is mistaken recognition

Mary stands outside the tomb, weeping. 
She sees a man. 
She thinks he is the gardener.

She is not wrong.

The comfort – the tension

Death seemed final. 
The tomb was sealed. 
But resurrection is not reversal. 
It is cultivation.

The Gardener is not undoing death. 
He is planting something new.

The drop

The grave is not the end. 
It is the soil.

And Christ, mistaken for a gardener, 
is exactly that.

He tends what was buried. 
He calls it by name. 
He makes all things grow again.