Gardens in the Word of God are presented to us as a place for fruit and fellowship, especially fellowship with God. Notice these two things as we consider in this issue some different garden scenes. What breaks the joy of fellowship? Sin. See what happens to joy in the garden when sin enters. The result in the Garden of Eden was man losing his visits from God for fellowship and being put out of the fruitful garden to face a life of thorns and thistles. The place of joy became the place of death. At the end of His life, our Lord Jesus went into a garden to have fellowship with God about His impending suffering and death. He takes three disciples with Him, for they too were being given the privilege of having fellowship with Him and with God about what was ahead and to be fortified by prayer. They were not up to it; He was. Death brings separation from fruitfulness and fellowship. In death our Lord Jesus is taken into a garden with a grave and a sealed rock to separate all from Him. But by the mighty work of Calvary, victory over all that hinders fruit for God and fellowship with God is won. The garden of death becomes the garden of life – “He is not here; He is risen.” May we each have our daily times of fellowship and fruitfulness in our gardens with our Lord. Have you had yours today? Have I had mine?