She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. 

It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him. "Dear woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. 

"Who are you looking for?"

She thought he was the gardener. 

"Sir", she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."

"Mary!" Jesus said. 

John 20:14-16 NLT

Have you ever wondered why Mary thought Jesus was the gardener?

Not a mourner, not security, not someone tending the graves or digging one. 

But a gardener. 

Jesus who created the first garden, stayed up all night in the garden before his death, now wandering around so at home here he looks like a gardener. Maybe he was pulling some weeds on the way by. 

Mistaken for the gardener Jesus has just saved the world, come back from death itself, and yet here he is, holding space for Mary, seeing her tears, 

and knowing her name.

This is resurrection life. 

Our saviour who holds space for us.

Jesus who sees our tears.

And who knows your name.

When we might miss him, mistake him for the gardener, can't see clearly because of our tears, he sees you.

Holds space for you.

And knows.

#dearlyloved

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