Through the lens of Young married
The garden — vocation, partnership, naming
The line in Genesis 2 that should be tattooed on the inside of every young marriage is they were both naked, and they felt no shame (Gen 2:25).
Eden was not just a place of beauty. It was a place of being fully seen and not hidden. The man and the woman stood in front of each other and in front of God with nothing to hide. That is the marriage Genesis is actually pointing at.
In the first years of marriage you are slowly learning the muscle of not hiding. From your spouse — about money, about fears, about temptations, about old wounds you brought into the relationship. From God — about the parts of you that you hope no one ever sees.
The deepest gift of a healthy marriage is that the person closest to your heart actually knows you and loves you anyway. That is the small reflection of how the Father loves both of you — fully seen, fully held, no hiding.
One small thing this week: name one thing you have been quietly hiding from your spouse — a worry, a sin, a hope, a hurt — and bring it into the light of an actual conversation. Not over text. At a kitchen table. With time.
The garden is for two people who stop pretending.