When Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener, it is not a mistake at all. It is a proclamation of Jesus’ oneness with God. The one who knows how to look death in the face and create new life from it - because he has experienced it first hand. Jesus has not only experienced resurrection, he facilitates it. Author and minister Rohadi Nagassar writes that “Jesus is a gardener who cultivates life in all who come to him.” He takes the death and decay of our lives and turns it into compost, the very stuff that helps bring forth new growth. Sweeter and richer than we could ever imagine.