The First Gardener

Not very long ago, my brother and I were talking.  He said something that made me curious, and I had to check it out.  Bet you can't guess who the very first gardener was.....Yeah, I didn't get it right either.  God himself was the first gardener!  I listened to my brother talk while he said that God had a fascination with dirt.  What?  But God likes purity and cleanliness! ???  Nevertheless, I had to admit that Will had a point.  How many places in the Bible does it talk about God himself working with dirt.  For example, man was actually created from dirt; Jesus could have just touched the blind man and healed his eyes, but instead, he spit in the dirt, made a mudball, and put it on the man's eye (seems like a mud plaster might be better than a mustard plaster after all!); when the woman was caught in the act of adultery, the Lord forgave her, and stooped to write (not on the sidewalk) in the DIRT!  But one of the best things that I think He did in the dirt was to plant a garden.  If you think like I did, I thought that He just spoke the words, and this absolutely divine garden sprung into view with all of it's color and fragrances...paradise created!  So when my brother told me that he planted the garden, I had to check it out.

Genesis 2:8 tells us the God PLANTED himself a garden, and put man into that garden.  Hmmmm!  Doesn't that say a lot?  He created the planet, the skies and seas, the rocks and dirt all by speaking it into existence.  Yet the 2 things that I feel were closest to his heart, his garden and his companion (man), he created with his own 2 hands.  And isn't it funny that as soon as he planted the garden, he put man in it....I think He may have been saying, "My goodness, isn't that garden gorgeous!  Live in your garden and enjoy it!"

Now that I think about all of this, I think that since I'm off of work today, I may go to the garden center.  I'm going to buy an apple tree and stuff to create a miniature fairy garden.....But even after all of my hard work, I can just about guarantee that my garden will never look like His did!

Happy gardening, folks!