Back to the Garden

Gardens are a place and they also are a metaphor, and many other things. They denote a place with boundaries and organization. I suspect few of us really understand what was meant when it was said that a garden had been created and man was placed in it to dress it. Not many of us talk about going out to the garden to dress it these days. We talk about weeding the garden -- but how do you weed a garden before it contains weeds? We talk about watering the garden -- but how do you water a place where it does not rain but the ground is moistened everyday by mist rising from the ground? We talk about cultivating a garden, but does that fit?

I suspect what was really intended was for the newly created man and wife simply to tend the garden and love it. Love the plants and help them grow and produce.

Somewhere along the way too many of us forgot about the love part of the equation and just focused on the tending, growing and producing