Mary comes to the garden on Easter morning. She doesn’t come to Jesus’ tomb to anoint Jesus’ body but to grieve the one she loves. This act tells us something about the garden - it’s not a place of beauty or peace. This garden is a place of sadness and loss. If you have known that kind of garden, it’s not too hard to visit that place in your heart or memories. Think about all the losses that have piled up over this past year alone—losses that have mounted so high that we hardly know how to take it in anymore. Maybe your heart goes to a loss that you’ve carried for a long, long time.

That’s the kind of garden where Easter begins. That’s the kind of garden that Mary goes to. A place to remember, and to weep. A place where hopes and dreams are buried. A place where we must face the finality of death. Or is it…?

In episode 7, join Jamalyn and Ashlea as they talk through Jesus’ resurrection proclamation to us that the story is not yet finished, a new creation is still possible, and indeed that new creation is present and unfolding already in our midst.