He Became the Better Man: The Two Gardens of Maundy Thursday

God loves a good garden — especially if that garden is on a mountaintop. In fact, God’s great story of redemption is largely a tale of two gardens. The tale begins and ends in the garden of Eden, which starts as an arboretum and ends as a paradisal city. But between the Bible’s bookends, we stumble into a very different garden: Gethsemane.On this Holy Thursday, as we remember the agony of Jesus under the olive trees, what fruit might we glean by comparing Eden and Gethsemane?Two GardensOn the su