Why I love gardens

First, Gardens are playful. Even the dirt is fun. We are allowed as adults to play in the mud and be kids.... How fun is that!

And then, Gardeners are creators. We design and plant and plan, and make things grow. Sometimes what we grow we get to eat, like tomatoes and basil, lemons and limes. Yummy!

And Gardens are calming. There's something soothing about working with your hands, seeing the fruit of your labor of love. Smelling the good smells. - unless it's manure. But that has purpose, so it's good.

And maybe the most important is the realization that we started in a garden. The Garden of Eden. Paradise. Whether that was a few thousand years ago, or millions of years ago - it doesn't matter. I think the whole point of that story is that it all started when we had a friendship, an intimate relationship with God. And the whole purpose for this life is to get back to that garden-relationship. He wants to talk to us, walk with us, smell the smells and play a little.... Have a place in our life = and we have a place in his life.

Yes, gardens are good...