Gardens....

 "Awake, O north wind, and come, O south!

Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out.

Let my Beloved come to His garden and eat its pleasant fruits."

-Song of Solomon 4:16 

It all began in the Garden of Eden...A perfect paradise, common ground in which God and man could coexist, freely fraternizing amid flora and fauna,

Nothing to interrupt, no power or persuasion to interfere...

nothing.....

...except a tree.....

The day of the imminent intrusion came, and the Garden was lost forever...

Its mournful Creator, though heartbroken and bereaved, set out to recapture this sacred ground.  There would be another Garden where this communion could be reclaimed, where the battle for His beloved would be waged and won...

...The Garden of Gethsemane...

Wielding every power of His will, summoning all the strength in His body, wresting resolve from His mind, He fought His fears, till blood and tears dually flowed and the decision was made...

...A tree had separated them...another tree would bring them together...

He bore the heavy beams that would bridge the divide; a lesser man would've failed, but for the joy set before Him, He endured...

"Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid."
-John 19:41

His destination, yet again, a garden, in which he would be crucified, in which there was an empty tomb where the division would be laid to rest,

forever.

"The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD.  Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing."

-Isaiah 51:3

*Hebrews 12:2
*John 19:41