The Garden

"God Almighty first planted a garden, and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures" [Francis Bacon Essays]

God chose to begin telling His story of human creation in a Garden. Perhaps because a garden is a place for planting, cultivation, watering, harvesting, and bringing both beauty and nutrition to social experience. These factors all have their spiritually metaphoric counterparts and are useful for considering and improving the human condition.

A garden in its purest form is simply an expression of natures beauty. It can be randomly or systematically organized; a bright and cheery ocean of color or boldly contrasted with its surrounding environment.

FOUR GARDENS: Gardens were places of profound spiritual and historical significance in the Bible. Four in particular are

Eden, Gethsemane, Golgotha, and the Glory of God, mentioned in Revelation 22.